Lew Wallace

Lew (Lewis) Wallace was an American soldier, lawyer, diplomat and novelist, born in Brookville, Indiana, in 1827, who rose to the rank of general in the Civil War and was United States minister to Turkey from 1881 to 1885.

He is best known for the novel Ben-Hur (1880); he also wrote The Fair God (1873) and The Prince of India (1893).