Michael Wallis Explained
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
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. 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
Wallis also provided the voice of Sheriff in the Disney·Pixar Cars franchise.[4]
Personal life
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 Times Caribbean Bureau. He currently lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with his wife, Suzanne Fitzgerald Wallis.[5]
Bibliography
- Book: The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny. 2017. Liveright Publishing Corporation. 978-0871407696.
- Book: David Crockett: The Lion of the West . 2011 . W. W. Norton & Company. 9780393067583.
- Book: The Wild West: 365 Days . 2011 . Abrams. 9780810996892.
- Book: Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride . registration . 2008 . W. W. Norton & Company. 9780393330632.
- Book: The Lincoln Highway: Coast to Coast from Times Square to the Golden Gate . 2007 . W. W. Norton & Company. 9780393059380.
- Book: Way Down Yonder in the Indian Nation . 1997 . St. Martin's Press. 9780312152420.
- Book: Oil Man: The Story Of Frank Phillips & The Birth Of Phillips Petroleum . 1995 . St. Martin's Griffin. 9780312131357.
- Book: Mankiller: A Chief and Her People. registration. 1994. St. Martin's Press. 9780312206628.
- Book: Pretty Boy: The Life and Times of Charles Arthur Floyd . 1992 . W. W. Norton & Company. 9780312072490.
- Book: Route 66: The Mother Road 75th Anniversary Edition . 1990 . W. W. Norton & Company. 9780312040499.
Filmography
Film
- (1994, documentary) host and guide (commentator)
- Cars (2006) as Sheriff (voice)
- Mater and the Ghostlight (2006, video short) as Sheriff (voice)
- Cars 2 (2011) as Sheriff (voice)
- Voices of History (2014, short) as Narrator (voice)
- Cars 3 (2017) as Sheriff (voice)
Television
- Cars Toons (2010, 1 episode) as Sheriff (voice)
- Cruisin' Route 66 with Michael Wallis (Season 1, 12–24 minute episodes) with updates from the 1994 show about Route 66 the Mother Road.
Video games
Theme park attractions
External links
Notes and References
- http://voicesofoklahoma.com/files/pdfs/Wallis_Transcript.pdf Voices of Oklahoma interview with Michael Wallis
- Danna Sue Walker, "Award-winning author speaks to library backers", Tulsa World, March 7, 2010.
- http://poetsandwriters.okstate.edu/halloffame/wallis.html Michael Wallis
- Web site: Barker. Kimberley. March 14, 2018. Michael Wallis, Route 66 author and voice actor, makes a pit stop in Galena. The Joplin Globe. June 6, 2022.
- https://www.tulsapeople.com/worth-reading-the-good-wife/article_0f4d6e6e-117d-5be9-8991-8b00d71b88b3.html
