Phil Wallace’s novel CALL OF
THE SEA reveals his lifelong passion for military history. As a novelist and
painter, Phil’s themes often return to the sea.
He was a guided missile
battery officer at the height of the Cold War.
Later, as an information officer at General Electric, Phil worked closely
with scientists who developed and produced the Polaris missile fire control and
guidance systems. While at GE, he created
and implemented the first military training use of closed-circuit television
connecting submarine crewmembers to an ultra secure “clean room” where
scientists were assembling the Polaris inertial guidance system. In 1992, Phil participated in an Army War
College seminar on world affairs. In
addition, he is an accomplished cartoonist, who illustrated TIGER TALES, a
collection of stories about the Flying Tigers in World War II.
As a filmmaker, he won the
prestigious CINE Golden Eagle Award for Majesty of America, a documentary
featuring a coast-to-coast tour of the U.S. by rail. Phil’s travel documentaries ran on the
Discovery Channel and the Travel Channel.
He also wrote and produced
American Catholic Diary, a
twentieth-century look at the Catholic Church in America. The film, sponsored by
Our Sunday Visitor, debuted on the Catholic Television Network and was
officially presented to Pope John Paul II in Rome.
Phil made his career on
Madison Avenue. As an advertising
executive, he managed national print and television campaigns for major
corporations including Amtrak, Campbell Soup Company, IBM, Johnson’s Wax,
Frigidaire and Procter and Gamble.
He has sailed the Long
Island Sound and the New England waters, as well as the Chesapeake where
critical action in the book occurs.
A former president of the
Scarsdale Art Association, he painted the cover for CALL OF THE
SEA.
Phil graduated from Fordham
University and makes his home in Scarsdale, New York with his wife
Ann.