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Edward Lewis Wallant (October 19, 1926 – December 5, 1962) was an American novelist who wrote The Pawnbroker (1961). It was adapted into an award-winning film of the same name, directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Rod Steiger.
Wallant died of an aneurysm at the age of 36. Wallant began to write professionally at age twenty nine. He had served in the Second World War as a gunner's mate. He attended the University of Connecticut and graduated from Pratt Institute and studied writing at The New School in New York.
The Edward Lewis Wallant Award is one of the oldest and most prestigious Jewish literary awards in the United States. The annual award recognizes a writer, preferably unrecognized, whose published work of fiction is deemed to have significance for American Jewish history and culture.
Known primarily as the author of The Pawnbroker, his only work to directly address the Holocaust, Edward Lewis Wallant wrote four novels before his untimely death at age 36 in 1962.
American novelist. Examine the life, times, and work of Edward Lewis Wallant through detailed author biographies on eNotes.
The Edward Lewis Wallant Award is presented annually to an American writer whose published creative work of fiction is considered to have significance for the American Jew.
The Tenants of Moonbloom is a novel by the Jewish American writer Edward Lewis Wallant (1926–1962). Wallant died of an aneurysm aged 36 with only two books published - The Human Season and The Pawnbroker.
Edward Lewis Wallant's reputation as a fiction writer rests on four slim novels, two of which were published posthumously: The Human. Season (1960), The Pawnbroker (1961), The Children at the Gate. (1964), and The Tenants of Moonbloom (1963). Yet each is a signif.
Edward Lewis Wallant wrote four books, including The Pawnbroker, before his untimely death at the age of thirty-six. The Human Season won the Harry and Ethel Daroff Memorial Fiction Award in 1961 from the Jewish Book Council of America.
Edward Lewis Wallant papers. Collection Overview. Finding Aid View. Digital Materials. Container List. Scope and Contents. The collection consists of writings, correspondence, photographs, sketches, and awards that document the career of American author Edward Lewis Wallant.
The Edward Lewis Wallant Award is an annual literary award presented to a writer whose fiction is considered to have significance for American Jews. It was established in 1962 at the University of Hartford by Fran and Irving Waltman.
NORWALK, Conn., Dec. 5 Edward Lewis Wallant, novelist, died today of a stroke at Norwalk Hospital. He was 36 years old and lived at 23 Vollmer Avenue. View Full Article in Timesmachine »
Edward Lewis Wallant papers. The collection consists of writings, correspondence, photographs, sketches, and awards that document the career of American author Edward Lewis Wallant.
Wallant's first novel sets the stage for all the others. Its protagonist is a fifty-nine-year-old plumber named Joe Berman who has just suffered a devas-tating injury, the death of his wife to whom he was profoundly attached. He feels as though his nerves have been severed, as though his connections with the world have suddenly disappeared.
Mar 1, 2022 · The University of Hartford’s Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies has named author Hanna Halperin the 2021 Edward Lewis Wallant Award winner for her outstanding debut novel, Something Wild (Penguin Random House, June 2021).
Edward Lewis Wallant's astonishing comic tour de force is a neglected masterpiece of 1960s America.
Edward Lewis Wallant Award Remarks On Monday, April 17, 2004, the forty-first Edward Lewis Wallant Award was given to Joan Leegant for An Hour in Paradise (W. W. Norton, 2003). The ceremony was held at the University of Hartford, sponsored by its founders Irving and Fran Waltman. Among past honorées were Chaim Potok, Cynthia
Making his rounds from apartment to apartment, Moonbloom confronts a wildly varied assortment of brilliantly described urban characters, among them a gay jazz musician with a sideline as a gigolo, a Holocaust survivor, and a brilliant young black writer modeled on James Baldwin.
The Pawnbroker (1961) is a novel by Edward Lewis Wallant which tells the story of Sol Nazerman, a concentration camp survivor who suffers flashbacks of his past Nazi imprisonment as he tries to cope with his daily life operating a pawn shop in East Harlem.
Edward Lewis Wallant (19 October 1926 – 5 December 1962) was an American writer.
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