Carol Wallace

Carol Wallace has written more than twenty books, including the New York Times bestseller To Marry an English Lord , which was an inspiration for Downton Abbey . She is also the author of an historical novel, Leaving Van Gogh , and a co-author of The Official Preppy Handbook . Wallace holds degrees from Princeton University and Columbia University, and is the great-great-granddaughter of Lew Wallace, author of the novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ , which was first published in 1880. She...See more

Carol Wallace has written more than twenty books, including the New York Times bestseller To Marry an English Lord , which was an inspiration for Downton Abbey . She is also the author of an historical novel, Leaving Van Gogh , and a co-author of The Official Preppy Handbook . Wallace holds degrees from Princeton University and Columbia University, and is the great-great-granddaughter of Lew Wallace, author of the novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ , which was first published in 1880. She currently lives in New York, New York. See less