“It seems now that when I sit down finally in the old man’s gown and slippers, helping the cat to keep the fireplace warm, I shall look back upon Ben-Hur as my best performance…” Lew writing under the Ben-Hur Beech The Novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christįollowing his first novel, The Fair God (1873), Lew Wallace believed he could make a career for himself in writing. There have even been American towns named after Ben-Hur.
The Supreme Tribe of Ben-Hur, a national fraternal organization founded upon Ben-Hur, later reformed into Ben-Hur Life Insurance. Ben-Hur has also been adapted into several cartoons and a musical.īen-Hur‘s impact on American culture is larger than the dramatic adaptations alone. That dramatization was followed by the motion picture productions in 1907, 1925, 1959, and 2016. The novel grew in such popularity during Wallace’s lifetime that it was adapted into a stage play in 1899. He did most of his work underneath a beech tree near his residence in Crawfordsville, Indiana. Wallace had been researching and writing the novel for seven years. “My God, did I set all of this in motion?” –Lew Wallaceīen-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by General Lew Wallace was published by Harper & Brothers on November 12, 1880.
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