J. H. Wallis (1885-1958) was a writer whose 1942 best-selling book Once Off Guard (later published as The Woman in the Window) was made into a film, The Woman in the Window (1944), directed by Fritz Lang.
James Harold Wallis was born in Iowa and educated at Yale.
He was a newspaperman in Iowa, later writing full-time in New York.
[1] Wallis' daughter, Jane O’Neil Wallis Burrell, was the first CIA employee to die on the job.
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