Horace Binney Wallace (February 26, 1817 – December 16, 1852) was an attorney, a critic of art and literature, and an accomplished author.
"[3] Before the age of twenty he had proposed a "New Theory of Comets" which his uncle Horace Wallace says he later discarded as "too playful for the grave science.
Many of his legal writings were also published in George Pope Morris and Nathaniel Parker Willis's Home Journal.
Griswold, after discovering the true identity of "William Landor," requested that Horace Wallace be featured in his upcoming Prose Writers of America (1847).
His obituary, written by his uncle Horace Binney,[2] says his nephew's cause of death was related to a "diseased cerebral action, induced by some lesion of the blood-vessels in the brain," but it was later revealed that he died by suicide, having cut his throat.