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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
American novelist. Examine the life, times, and work of Edward Lewis Wallant through detailed author biographies on eNotes.
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.
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 papers. The collection consists of writings, correspondence, photographs, sketches, and awards that document the career of American author Edward Lewis Wallant.
