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Benjamin Wallace is an American author and magazine writer known for his 2008 book The Billionaire's Vinegar. Early life Benjamin Wallace grew up in Washington, D.C., and was the son of Daphne Wallace and Don Wallace Jr. His father was a professor emeritus of international law at Georgetown University. Wallace knew by the eighth grade that he wanted to be a writer and majored in English with a minor in philosophy at Georgetown University. Career Wallace is a contributing editor for Vanity Fair. He has written for New York magazine. Wallace often writes about technology and was one of the first journalists to cover Bitcoin in a mainstream publication.Earlier in his career, after briefly teaching and writing in the Czech Republic and Hungary, he moved to New York and spent two years working for a financial newsletter. Wallace then worked for Philadelphia Magazine in which he spent his last three years at the magazine as its executive editor. The Billionaire's Vinegar In 2008, Wallace published The Billionaire's Vinegar, subtitled The Mystery of the World’s Most Expensive Bottle of Wine, a book about Hardy Rodenstock's alleged Thomas Jefferson wine bottles. It debuted at #10 on the New York Times bestseller list. Upon publication, The Economist described it as “a great tale, well told,” and The New York Times called it “one of the rare books on wine that transcends the genre.”In 2009, Michael Broadbent who auctioned some of Rodenstock's bottles, sued Random House, the publisher of The Billionaire's Vinegar for libel, claiming the book made allegations that he had behaved unprofessionally. In the settlement, Random House apologized for the allegations and issued a statement in court accepting that they were not true. Random House also paid an undisclosed amount of damages to Broadbent and agreed not to distribute the book in the United Kingdom. Wallace said, "I have never felt that Mr. Broadbent acted in bad faith, and contrary to his claims, I maintain that The Billionaire's Vinegar does not suggest that he did."Todd Black, James Lassiter, Jason Blumenthal, Steve Tisch and Will Smith bought the rights to Wallace's book before it was published in 2008. In 2012, it was reported that they were developing a movie about the book starring Brad Pitt. It has since been reported that the movie will star Matthew McConaughey. The film will be distributed by Sony Pictures and the script will be written by Michael Brandt and Derek Haas. Personal life On April 26, 2008, he married Jessica Pressler, an editor at New York magazine at the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America. Sean E. Mullen, an Episcopal priest, officiated the wedding and Gerard Sloyan, a Roman Catholic priest participated in the ceremony. They later divorced. References External links Official website Benjamin Wallace at IMDb Benjamin Wallace on Twitter . Discover the Benjamin Wallace popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Benjamin Wallace books.

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    Two Men from Babylon

    Wallace Henley

    What roles do King Nebuchadnezzar, ruler of ancient Babylon, and Donald J. Trump, 45th president of the United States, play in God furthering His kingdom? In Two Men from Babylon, ...

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    Selected Works

    Earl Of Rochester & Frank H. Ellis

    The brightest star at the court of King Charles II, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (164780), lived a life of reckless debauchery and sexual adventuring that led to his death at the...

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    Quicksand

    Steve Toltz

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    Die Entdeckung der Unendlichkeit

    Aeneas Rooch

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    The Sleepover Joke Book

    Sandy Ransford

    A new collection of hilarious jokes on anything and everything to do with sleepovers. Divided into sections, it features all the fun of sleepover visits, the food, the videos, the ...