Author:Lew Wallace

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Lew Wallace (1827–1905)

Lawyer, governor, Union general in the American Civil War, American statesman and author, best remembered for his historical novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.

Lew Wallace

Works

• The Fair God; or, The Last of the 'Tzins: A Tale of the Conquest of Mexico (1873) [1]
• Commodus: An Historical Play (1876)
• Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880) [2]
• The Boyhood of Christ (1888) [3]
• Life of Gen. Ben Harrison (1888)
• The Prince of India; or, Why Constantinople Fell (1893)
• The Wooing of Malkatoon and Commodus (1898)
• Lew Wallace: An Autobiography (1906)

Works about Wallace

• “Wallace, Lewis” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910.
• “Wallace, Lewis” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Wallace, Lew” in The Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York, 1918.