John Douglass Wallop III (March 8, 1920 – April 1, 1985) was an American novelist and playwright.
[citation needed] During World War II, Wallop worked for United Press in Washington, D.C.[1] He was skilled in stenography and shorthand.
[1] His first novel, 1953's Night Light,[1] concerns a father's search into the background of his child's murderer.
Anne Brooks of the New York Herald Tribune Book Review said he "created characters who are both real and colorful, and he has delved into a maniac's mind with considerable understanding."
Peck wrote an article for the Chicago Sunday Tribune and said it was the "first novel that's well constructed, carefully written, and free of painful mannerisms."