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Edward Lewis Wallant. 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. He also worked in the 1950s an art director at advertising firm McCann-Erickson .
October 19, 1926. Died. December 05, 1962. edit data. 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.
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David Galloway, in Edward Lewis Wallant, claims Wallant may have been inspired to address the trauma of the Holocaust after meeting a Jewish refugee who had survived the death camps when both were students and adds that visits to a relative's pawnshop in Harlem informed the novel's setting. Wallant's writing concerns Jewish American ...
Apr 15, 2024 · Edward Lewis Wallant Award. Join the Maurice Greenberg Center on April 15, 2024, at 7 p.m., as we honor 2023Wallant Award winner Elizabeth Graver, author of Kantika. Register by emailing mgcjs@hartford.edu. The Edward Lewis Wallant Award is one of the oldest and most prestigious Jewish literary awards in the United States.
Harcourt, Brace & World. Publication date. 1963. Media type. Print (hardback & paperback) 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. The Tenants of Moonbloom was published posthumously .
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Edward Lewis Wallant was born in New Haven, Connecticut, on October 19, 1926. His father, who was disabled by a mustard-gas attack during World War I, was almost continuously hospitalized during ...
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. icant and highly accomplished novel, and despite his small output, Wal lant ...
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