In his second tale of redemption, the Indiana native wrote "Ben-Hur ... the best known first lady in Indiana history up until the 1950s," Larry Paarlberg, director of the Lew Wallace Study ...

Lew Wallace led a storied life: He fought in the Civil War as the youngest major general in the Union Army; wrote Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, one of the best-selling novels of all time ...

the film is an adaptation of Lew Wallace’s bestseller, which was later made into a 1925 silent epic (also included on this Blu-ray release). It follows Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish prince who is ...

Slate editorial director John Swansburg was on Reddit on Wednesday answering questions about his essay on the epic life of Ben-Hur author Lew Wallace ... seek out for the first time the profound ...

In Thursday's special Christmas River Bits column I told the story of Lew Wallace's "Ben-Hur: The Tale of Christ ... It was an instant hit! The first production ran until May 10, 1900, with ...

Ben-Hur is a remake of a remake ... Bekmambetov says his version goes way back to the source - Lew Wallace's 1880 novel. The 2016 edition, Bekmambetov says, is more historically accurate than ...

The studio is planning to unleash a new version of Ben-Hur, based on the 1880 Lew Wallace novel Ben-Hur: A Tale Of The Christ, which outsold every book but The Bible until it was eclipsed by Gone ...