About Author Doug Wallace: His Inspiring Life Story

About Author Doug Wallace: An Inspiring True Life Story

In Everything Will Be All Right, Doug Wallace recounts his life story from a childhood of poverty to self-made millionaire and published author. He grew up in a family so poor they all slept in one bed and ate what could be shot in the woods nearby. His alcoholic and abusive father taught Doug and his seven siblings how to survive their hardscrabble life by fleeing in the night from landlords, scrambling for food, and burning down their house for the insurance money.

Rather than succumb to the hopelessness of generational poverty, Doug Wallace left his family in Tennessee and joined the Job Corp. After a tour in the military, he enrolled in college and graduated from Woodrow Wilson School of Law.

He then started his own law firm and practiced law for several decades in Atlanta, Georgia before merging his firm with a large regional bank, allowing him to retire a millionaire at the age of 50 – an astounding accomplishment considering his childhood deprivations.

After retirement, Doug Wallace moved to a ranch near San Diego where he wrote and published his life story, Everything Will Be All Right. The memoir is now part of the curriculum at schools across America from 5th grade to university level. Today, Doug Wallace’s life’s work is to focus attention on generational poverty and empower the underprivileged to break the cycle through will, tenacity and faith. In his book and regular blog posts, he shares anecdotes from his own life story to inspire others who live in poverty but don’t intend to stay there.