| Intro | American writer |
| Was |
Writer Crime writer Poet |
| From | United States of America |
| Type | Literature |
| Gender | male |
| Birth | 1 January 1885, Dubuque |
| Death |
1 January 1958, Scarsdale (aged 73 years) |
J. H. Wallis (1885-1958) was a writer whose best-selling book Once Off Guard (in later publications it was called The Woman in the Window) was made into a film, The Woman in the Window (1944), directed by Fritz Lang.
Published a book of poetry (1916, New Haven: Yale University Press) “The Testament of William Windune and Other Poems.” Title poem was modeled after “The Greater Testament of Francois Villon.”