| DeWitt Wallace AKA William Roy DeWitt Wallace Born: 12-Nov-1889
Birthplace: St. Paul, MN
Died: 30-Mar-1981
Location of death: Mount Kisco, NY
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Religion: Presbyterian
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Author Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Founder of Reader's Digest Military service: US Army (WWI, injured) Father: (professor at Macalester College, St. Paul MN)
Wife: Lila Bell Acheson (m. 1921)
University: Macalester College
University: University of California at Berkeley (1909-11)
Reader's Digest Founder (1922-)
Dutch Treat Club (1936-81)
Presidential Medal of Freedom 1972
Appears on the cover of:
Time, 10-Dec-1951, DETAILS: (with his wife)
Is the subject of books:
Their's Was the Kingdom -- Lila and Dewitt Wallace and the Story of the Reader's Digest, 1995, BY: John Heidenry, DETAILS: W.W. Norton
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