Daniel Wallace (born 1959) is an American author, best known for his 1998 novel Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions, the basis for the Tim Burton film Big Fish. His other books include Ray in Reverse and The Watermelon King: A Novel. His stories have also been published in a number of anthologies and magazines, including The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror.
Wallace was born in Birmingham, Alabama. He has three sisters. He attended Emory Univer...
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Daniel Wallace (born 1959) is an American author, best known for his 1998 novel Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions, the basis for the Tim Burton film Big Fish. His other books include Ray in Reverse and The Watermelon King: A Novel. His stories have also been published in a number of anthologies and magazines, including The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror.
Wallace was born in Birmingham, Alabama. He has three sisters. He attended Emory University and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, studying English and philosophy. His first job was at a vet, cleaning cages and squeezing anal glands. He did not graduate from college until May 2008, instead taking a job with a trading company in Nagoya, Japan. He currently lives in Chapel Hill with his wife and son.
Wallace states, of his childhood, that "I was completely average in every way. My childhood was the most uneventful part of my life, I think." He reports, however, that there was friction within his family, as in an interview...
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