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Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Grant_Wallace > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Grant_Wallace.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Wallace > Source revision: 1343451015 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|American journalist}} {{Infobox person | name =Grant Wallace | birth_name = | image = File:Grant Wallace - portrait.jpg | caption = Portrait of Grant Wallace | birth_date = {{birth date|1867|02|10}} | birth_place = [Hopkins, Missouri](/source/Hopkins%2C_Missouri), US | death_date = {{death date and age|1954|12|18|1867|2|10}} | death_place = [Berkeley, California](/source/Berkeley%2C_California), US | nationality = | occupation = [journalist](/source/journalist), [artist](/source/artist), [screenwriter](/source/screenwriter), [Esperantist](/source/Esperantist) and [occultist](/source/occultist). | spouse = | children = }} '''Grant Wallace''' (1868–1954) was an American [journalist](/source/journalist), [artist](/source/artist), [screenwriter](/source/screenwriter), [Esperantist](/source/Esperantist) and [occultist](/source/occultist). He wrote short stories and screen plays, including two black and white silent movies. == Early life == Grant Wallace was born on February 10, 1867, in [Hopkins, Missouri](/source/Hopkins%2C_Missouri), the son of a judge. His education included a B.S. from Western Normal College in [Shenandoah, Iowa](/source/Shenandoah%2C_Iowa), in 1889, and art classes from the [Art Students League of New York](/source/Art_Students_League_of_New_York). ==Career== In the 1890s, Wallace worked as a newspaper artist and reporter in [Saint Paul, Minnesota](/source/Saint_Paul%2C_Minnesota) at the ''[St. Paul Pioneer Press](/source/St._Paul_Pioneer_Press)'' before he moved to [San Francisco](/source/San_Francisco). In San Francisco, he worked for the ''[San Francisco Chronicle](/source/San_Francisco_Chronicle),'' and ''[San Francisco Examiner](/source/San_Francisco_Examiner),'' as an editorial and feature writer, and a war correspondent for the [Evening Bulletin](/source/San_Francisco_Call) in [Japan](/source/Japan) and [China](/source/China). He wrote short stories and screen plays, including for two black and white silent movies: the story for [A Blowout at Santa Banana](/source/A_Blowout_at_Santa_Banana) (1914), and the [scenario](/source/scenario) for the movie [The Fuel of Life](/source/The_Fuel_of_Life) (1917). He also lectured on the occult.{{cite book|last=Dramov|first=Alissandra|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GtRzAgAAQBAJ|title=Carmel-by-the-Sea, The Early Years (1803-1913)|work=[AuthorHouse](/source/AuthorHouse)|place=Blomington, Indiana|date=2012|pages=42–43|isbn=9781491824146|access-date=2023-03-03}} In this period he was also a promoter of the international language [esperanto](/source/esperanto) and he was the editor of the San Francisco Esperantist.{{cite news|title=ESPERANTISTS TO MEET Bay Cities Linguists to Assemble in Oakland Thursday|publisher=San Francisco Call|date=23 December 1923}} == Occultism == left|thumb|"TAH-NEZH OF MARS - Station MARS Broadcasting?" drawing by Grant Wallace After [World War I](/source/World_War_I), Wallace built a small cabin in the forest near [Carmel-by-the-Sea, California](/source/Carmel-by-the-Sea%2C_California), which he used as a laboratory for experimenting with [telepathy](/source/telepathy), which he sometimes referred to as "mental radio." He made hundreds of drawings, charts, diagrams, and writings, attempting to reveal the patterns of life, including [reincarnation](/source/reincarnation), communication with intelligent life on other planets, and with dead spirits. He wrote about messages from the dead, from [ancient Greeks](/source/ancient_Greeks), [ancient Egyptians](/source/ancient_Egyptians), [Viking](/source/Viking)s, and [Atlantean](/source/Atlantis)s, to more recent dead, such as [Thomas Jefferson](/source/Thomas_Jefferson) and [Charles Darwin](/source/Charles_Darwin), and transcribed messages from and drew pictures of [extraterrestrial life](/source/extraterrestrial_life), especially from the [Pleiades star cluster](/source/Pleiades). {{blockquote|He showed newspaper readers what a good columnist and illustrator was like, made a lively war correspondent (Jap-Russo) became a hunter of big game, helped settle a colonization on a cocoanut Island off Mexico, thought he'd write some books of serious importance; he did; then decided to devote his life to science! He makes exquisite drawings in color of incarnated figures of historical personages. His pen and ink drawings appear in magazines. His pen is busy telling stories in both word and line.|''[Carmel Pine Cone](/source/Carmel_Pine_Cone)''{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/ccarm_001733/page/n5/mode/2up?q=%22Heron%22|title=Who's Who-and Here|author=|work=Carmel Pine Cone|place=Carmel-by-the-Sea, California|date=1928-12-14|pages=9–15|access-date=2022-10-17}}}} ==Death== He died August 12, 1954, in [Berkeley, California](/source/Berkeley%2C_California). His works were recovered from his Carmel cabin after his death, and some of his art and diagrams were included in ''The End is Near!, Visions of Apocalypse, Millennium and Utopia'', {{ISBN|0-9664272-7-0}}, published by Dilettante Press. == References == {{Reflist}} ==External links== {{commons category}} {{Wikiquote}} * [http://www.dilettantepress.com/artists/wallace.html Dilettante Press] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060506012320/http://www.dilettantepress.com/artists/wallace.html |date=2006-05-06 }} Page with bio and photos, by the publishers of "The End is Near", featuring many of his drawings and diagrams of the supernatural. * {{IMDb name | id=0908660 | name=Grant Wallace}} * [http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/AbbrView.aspx?s=1&Movie=14586 The Fuel of Life] Page on the movie by the AFI silent film catalog {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Wallace, Grant}} Category:1867 births Category:1954 deaths Category:American male journalists Category:American occultists Category:American male screenwriters Category:Order of the Precious Crown members Category:War correspondents of the Russo-Japanese War Category:People from Hopkins, Missouri Category:People from Shenandoah, Iowa Category:Journalists from California Category:Screenwriters from California Category:Screenwriters from Iowa Category:Screenwriters from Missouri Category:20th-century American male writers Category:20th-century American screenwriters Category:Artists from Carmel-by-the-Sea, California Category:Artists from Iowa Category:Artists from Missouri Category:Writers from Carmel-by-the-Sea, California --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Grant Wallace](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Wallace) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Wallace?action=history)). 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