Waller, Leslie
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1923-2007) US author, also resident in Italy and London, who wrote a number of bestsellers and the novelization of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977): Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), published as by Steven Spielberg. He is sometimes credited as co-inventor of the Graphic Novel in America, with the non-sf "picture novel" It Rhymes with Lust (graph 1950) as by Drake Waller in collaboration with Comics writer Arnold Drake. [DRL]
Leslie Waller
born Chicago, Illinois: 1 April 1923
died New York: 29 March 2007
works (selected)
- It Rhymes with Lust (New York: St John Publications, 1950) with Arnold Drake, as by Drake Waller [graph: illus/pb/Matt Baker]
- The Witching Night (New York: World Publishing Company, 1952) as by C S Cody [hb/John Hall]
- The Witching Night (Medford, Oregon: Armchair Fiction, 2012) as by Leslie Waller [reissue under author's own name: pb/Tommy Shoemaker]
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (New York: Delacorte Press, 1977) as by Steven Spielberg [tie: hb/Dan Perri]
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