*Also appeared in January Buyer's Notes*
Lewis Wallace, born in Indiana in 1827, was an American lawyer, general in the American Civil War, governor, politician, diplomat and author. Before his death in 1905 he wrote numerous novels and biographies, but is most famous for his second novel, `Ben-Hur¿ (1880), a bestseller that is often referred to as the `most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century¿.
