"One big change was that I made the chapters very short, and made the dialogue more contemporary. And there's a great deal of story still to come after the chariot race, which has to be exciting enough to keep readers going after what they expect-from the filmed versions-to be the end of the story. The biggest challenge was probably writing the chariot race scene: it's only 11 pages in the original, but I wanted to stretch it out, since this is what everyone remembers. "Writing the new version of Ben-Hur was great fun, because Lew Wallace had already done the heavy lifting: the research, the wonderful plot, building characters that readers care about. We asked her about modernizing the novel. Carol, who holds degrees from Princeton University and Columbia University, has written more than 20 books and has just updated Ben-Hur (Tyndale House, $15.99 paperback) as the official tie-in for the remake of the classic film, out August 19 here's the trailer for this thrilling movie. Carol Wallace is the great-great granddaughter of Lew Wallace, author of the novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, first published in 1880.
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