{{short description|American writer (1900-1980)}} {{for|the superheroes|Wally West|Wallace West (character)}} {{Multiple issues|{{more citations needed|date=June 2023}} {{no footnotes|date=June 2023}}}} {{infobox author | birth_date = May 22, 1900 | death_date = {{death date and age|March 8, 1980|May 22, 1900}} | nationality = American | occupation = Author | genre = Science fiction | notable_works = ''The Bird of Time'' (1959) }} thumb|right|West's novelette "Outlaw Queen of Venus" was the cover story for the February 1944 issue of ''Fantastic Adventures'' [[File:Science Fiction Quarterly August 1956.jpg|thumb|right|West's novelette "The Time-Lockers" was the cover story for the August 1956 issue of ''Science Fiction Quarterly'']]
'''Wallace West''' ({{Birth date|1900|05|22}} – {{Death date|1980|03|08}}) was an American science fiction writer.
== Biography == West was born May 22, 1900.
He began publishing during the 1920s. His story "Static" appeared in ''Sea Stories Magazine'' in 1926 and the story "Loup-Garou" in ''Weird Tales'' in 1927. The majority of West's work, which was published prior to the 1960s, was short fiction. His few novels, mostly published after World War II, were mostly re-workings of his pre-war short fiction.
He is credited with suggesting the plot to the Arch Oboler radio play ''Profits Unlimited''.
==Bibliography==
===Film history=== *''Alice in Wonderland'' (1934) *''Betty Boop in Snow-White'' (1934) *''Paramount Newsreel Men with Admiral Byrd in Little America'' (1934)
===Novels=== *''The Bird of Time'' (1959) * ''Lords of Atlantis'' (1960) *''The Memory Bank'' (1962) *''River of Time'' (1963) *''The Time-Lockers'' (1964) *''The Everlasting Exiles'' (1967)
===Short stories=== * "[https://archive.org/stream/Galaxy_v25n03_1967-02#page/n83/mode/2up The Last Filibuster]" (1967)
==References== * {{cite book | last=Clute | first=John | authorlink=John Clute |author2=Peter Nicholls |authorlink2=Peter Nicholls (writer) | title=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction | location=New York| publisher=St. Martin's Griffin | year=1995|isbn=0-312-13486-X | page=1317}} * {{cite book | last=Tuck | first=Donald H. | authorlink=Donald H. Tuck | title=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy | location=Chicago | publisher=Advent | pages=452–453 | year=1978|isbn=0-911682-22-8}}
==External links== * {{Gutenberg author | id=33900 }} * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Wallace West |sopt=t}} * {{Librivox author |id=8843}} * {{ISFDB name|id=Wallace_West|name=Wallace West}} * {{IMDb name|0922384}}
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