Please answer the following question: What type of details about edgar wallace  can be gathered from the following bio?  Bio: richard horatio edgar wallace -lrb- 1 april 1875 -- 10 february 1932 -rrb- was an english writer . born into poverty as an illegitimate london child , wallace left school at 12 . he joined the army at 21 and was a war correspondent during the second boer war for reuters and the `` daily mail '' . struggling with debt , he left south africa , returned to london and began writing thrillers to raise income , publishing books including `` the four just men '' -lrb- 1905 -rrb- . drawing on time as a reporter in the congo , covering the belgian atrocities , wallace serialised short stories in magazines , later publishing collections such as `` sanders of the river '' -lrb- 1911 -rrb- . he signed with hodder and stoughton in 1921 and became an internationally recognised author . after a disastrous bid to stand as liberal mp for blackpool in the 1931 general election , wallace moved to hollywood , where he worked as a script writer for rko studios . he died suddenly from undiagnosed diabetes , during the initial drafting of `` king kong '' -lrb- 1933 -rrb- . a prolific writer , one of wallace 's publishers claimed that a quarter of all books then read in england were written by him . as well as journalism , wallace wrote screen plays , poetry , historical non-fiction , 18 stage plays , 957 short stories and over 170 novels , 12 in 1929 alone . more than 160 films have been made of wallace 's work . he is remembered for the creation of king kong , as a writer of ` the colonial imagination ' , for the j. g. reeder detective stories , and the `` green archer '' . he sold over 50 million copies of his combined works in various editions and `` the economist '' describes him as `` one of the most prolific thriller writers of 20th century '' , although few of his books are still in print in the uk .
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