Ian Wallace was the pen name of American science-fiction author John Wallace Pritchard (1912–1998).
Introduction
Wallace was born in
Chicago, Illinois
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, but spent most of his life living in and around
Detroit, Michigan
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. Wallace was a practicing clinical
psychologist
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for many years, and also had an extensive background in
education
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. Much of his career was spent working for the Detroit public schools system.
Wallace's mystery and adventure novels were generally set deep in the future, and often included characters with superhuman or telepathic abilities.
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1912 births
1998 deaths
Novelists from Chicago
20th-century American novelists
American male novelists
American science fiction writers
20th-century American male writers