Daniel Wallace (born 1959) is an American author. He is best known for his 1998 novel Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions. His stories have also been published in a number of anthologies and magazines, including The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. His books have been translated into 18 languages, while Big Fish was made into a film by Tim Burton. In a 2011 article for Pure Movies, he wrote about how absurd he found it that Big Fish was the book that was adapted into a film when all his others have clearer narrative structures. His other books include Ray in Reverse, The Watermelon King and Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician. While his short stories have been published in a number of anthologies and magazines, including The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. Less