Lew Wallace

Active - 1907 - 2016  |   Birth - Apr 10, 1827  |   Death - Feb 15, 1905  |   Genres - Drama, Action-Adventure, History, Silent Film, Epic | Subgenres - Silent Film, Epic Film, Silent Feature, Silent Short, Sword-And-Sandal Film

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Lewis (Lew) Wallace was an American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, governor of the New Mexico Territory, politician, diplomat, and author from Indiana. Among his novels and biographies, Wallace is best known for his historical adventure story, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880), a bestselling novel that has been called "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century."

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