Douglas Wallop III, a novelist and Tony Award-winning playwright, is best known for the comic novel, The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant (1954), which he later adapted into the popular musical Damn Yankees. He is the author of 13 books, including he novels Night Light (1953), The Mermaid in the Swimming Pool (1968), Mixed Singles (1977), and The Other Side of the River (1984), and the nonfiction book Baseball: An Informal History (1969).
Wallop grew up in DC, graduated from The University of Maryland, and worked as a journalist. He was married to the writer Lucille Fletcher.
The Homes
Douglass Wallop
3435 8th St S, Arlington VA
Located in Northern Virginia