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 Daniel Wallace at the 2008 Texas Book Festival. | |
| Born | Error: Need valid birth date: year, month, day Birmingham, Alabama, USA |
| Occupation | writer |
| Nationality | American |
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Daniel Wallace (born 1959) is an American author, best known for his 1998 novel Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions - the basis for the Tim Burton film Big Fish.
Life
Wallace was born in Birmingham, Alabama. He has three sisters. He attended Emory University and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, studying English and philosophy. His first job was at a vet, cleaning cages and squeezing anal glands. He did not graduate from college until May 2008, instead taking a job with a trading company in Nagoya, Japan.
After returning to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Wallace worked for thirteen years in a bookstore and as an illustrator before Big Fish was published. A running motif in his works are glass eyes; Wallace has stated in numerous interviews (including the one published in the back of the paperback edition of Big Fish) that he collects glass eyes.
Wallace is a professor and lecturer in the English Department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Bibliography
- Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions (1998)
- Ray in Reverse (2000)
- The Watermelon King (2003)
- O Great Rosenfeld! a.k.a. O Great Rosenfeld!: In Which Our Esteemed Leader, Rosenfeld, and His Tribe of 33 and 1/2 Followers Find Themselves Trapped Between a Bunch of Very Dangerous ... After Sally, the Most Beautiful Woman (2005)
- O Great Rosenfeld! Part the 2 a.k.a. O Great Rosenfeld! Part the 2: In Which Wilson Learns to Cartwheel and All is Seems Lost Only to be Saved at Very Nearly the Last Second by Love (2005)
- Off the Map (2005)
- Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician (2007)
References
External links
- Wallace's website
- Inventory of the Daniel Wallace Papers, 1977-2007, in the Southern Historical Collection, UNC-Chapel Hill
- Daniel Wallace at IMDb
- Strange Horizons interview
- Independent Weekly interview
- Southern Literary Review interview
- USAToday interview