Wallace West
| Full Name: |
Wallace
George
West |
| Born: |
May 22, 1900
Walnut Hills, Kentucky, USA |
| Died: |
March 8, 1980
Shelby, Michigan, USA |
| Occupation: |
Lawyer, Writer, Public-Relations, Pollution-Control Expert |
| Nationality: |
American |
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Biography
Wallace West began publishing during 1927 with the story "Loup-Garou" in Weird Tales. The majority of West's work, which was published prior to the 1960s, was short fiction. His few novels, mostly published after World War II, were mostly re-workings of his pre-war short fiction.
His stories, though unpretentiously told, exhibit a level-headed cognitive vigour that keeps even his early work from dating. Some of his tales -- like "Dust" (written 1935; Spring 1967 Famous Science Fiction) -- made significant early attempts to put Pollution and other side-effects of progress on the SF agenda.
West had a number of carreers and fiction writing was just one aspect of his life.
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