About Irving Wallace:
Irving Wallace was an American best-selling author and screenwriter. Wallace was known for his heavily researched novels, many with a sexual theme. One critic[who?] described him as "the most successful of all the many exponents of junk fiction perhaps because he took it all so seriously, not to say lugubriously".[better source needed] Wallace was a blue-collar writer who wrote for a blue-collar audience. Most critics were scornful of his novels' flat prose and pedestrian characters.[better source needed]