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'', March 7, 2010. including ''Route 66: The Mother Road'', about the historic highway U.S. Route 66. His work has also been published extensively in magazines and newspapers, including ''Time'', ''Life'', ''People'', ''Smithsonian'', ''The New Yorker'', and ''The New York Times''.

Awards and honors

Wallis has received the John Steinbeck Award, the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oklahoma Center for the Book, the Will Rogers Spirit Award, and the Western Heritage Award from the National Cowboy Hall & Western Heritage Museum. He has been inducted into the Oklahoma Writers Hall of Fame, Writers Hall of Fame of America, and the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame, and was the first inductee into the Oklahoma Route 66 Hall of Fame. Michael Wallis and Joy Harjo - 01

Wallis was interviewed by Rep.

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(R-Missouri) for '' After Words'' on

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, 29 April 2007, discussing his latest book, ''Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride.''

Other work

Wallis also provided the voice of

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in the

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''Cars'' franchise.

Personal life

Wallis was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He graduated from

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in Alton, Illinois, in 1963. He later attended the

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, and moved to

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, Florida, in 1978, where he worked for

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's Caribbean Bureau. He currently lives in

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, Oklahoma, with his wife, Suzanne Fitzgerald Wallis.

Bibliography

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Filmography

Film

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'' (2006) as Sheriff (voice) *''

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'' (2006, Video short) as Sheriff (voice) *''

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'' (2011) as Sheriff (voice) *''Voices of History'' (2014, Short) as Narrator (voice) *'' Cars 3'' (2017) as Sheriff (voice)

Television

*'' Cars Toons'' (2010, 1 episode) as Sheriff (voice)

Video games

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'' (2006) as Sheriff (voice) *''

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'' (2007) as Sheriff (voice) *''

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'' (2009) as Sheriff (voice) *'' Cars 2: The Video Game'' (2011) as Sheriff (voice) *'' Kinect Rush: A Disney-Pixar Adventure'' (2012) as Sheriff (voice)

Theme park attractions

*'' Radiator Springs Racers'' (2012) as Sheriff

References

External links

Michael Wallis Online
(official website) *
Voices of Oklahoma interview with Michael Wallis.
First person interview conducted on March 3, 2011, with Michael Wallis. * {{DEFAULTSORT:Wallis, Michael 1945 births 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Historians of the American West Historians of the United States Living people Journalists from Missouri University of Missouri alumni American male voice actors Writers from Tulsa, Oklahoma 21st-century American male actors Historians from Missouri Historians of transport Writers from St. Louis 20th-century American historians American male non-fiction writers 20th-century American male writers