American writer
Michael Wallis
(born October 7, 1945)
[1]
is an American journalist, popular historian, author and speaker. He has written seventeen books,
[2]
including
Route 66: The Mother Road
, about the historic highway
U.S. Route 66
. His work has also been published extensively in magazines and newspapers, including
Time
,
Life
,
People
,
Smithsonian
,
The New Yorker
, and
The New York Times
. Wallis is also the voice of Sheriff in the Disney/Pixar franchise
Cars
.
Awards and honors
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Wallis has received the John Steinbeck Award, the
Arrell Gibson
Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oklahoma Center for the Book, the Will Rogers Spirit Award, and the Western Heritage Award from the National Cowboy Hall & Western Heritage Museum.
[2]
He has been inducted into the Oklahoma Writers Hall of Fame,
[3]
Writers Hall of Fame of America, and the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame, and was the first inductee into the Oklahoma Route 66 Hall of Fame.
Wallis was interviewed by Rep.
Roy Blunt
(R-Missouri) for
After Words
on
Book TV
, 29 April 2007, discussing his latest book,
Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride.
Other work
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Wallis also provided the voice of
Sheriff
in the
Disney
·
Pixar
Cars
franchise
.
[4]
Personal life
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Wallis was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He graduated from
Western Military Academy
in Alton, Illinois, in 1963. He later attended the
University of Missouri
in
Columbia
, and moved to
Miami
, Florida, in 1978, where he worked for
Time
's Caribbean Bureau. He currently lives in
Tulsa
, Oklahoma, with his wife, Suzanne Fitzgerald Wallis.
Bibliography
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Filmography
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Film
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Television
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- Cruisin' Route 66 with Michael Wallis" ( Season 1 12-24 minute episodes) with updates from 1994 show about Route 66 the Mother Road.
Video games
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Theme park attractions
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References
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- ^
Voices of Oklahoma interview with Michael Wallis
, March 3, 2011 (accessed January 9, 2012).
- ^
a
b
Danna Sue Walker,
"Award-winning author speaks to library backers"
,
Tulsa World
, March 7, 2010.
- ^
Michael Wallis
at Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers (accessed March 7, 2010).
- ^
Barker, Kimberley (March 14, 2018).
"Michael Wallis, Route 66 author and voice actor, makes a pit stop in Galena"
.
The Joplin Globe
. Retrieved
June 6,
2022
.
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