Edward Lewis Wallant wrote four novels which attracted a small but enthusiastic readership. Born 19 October 1926 in New Haven, Connecticut, Wallant died young on 5 December 1962. As a modern novelist...
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When Edward Lewis Wallant died of a stroke resulting from a cerebral aneurysm in 1962, at the age of thirty-six, he had been a published novelist for less than three years and a writer of serious fict...
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Edward Lewis Wallant remains an important but minor Jewish-American writer of post--World War II America -- one whose career was cut short by his death at age thirty-six, just as he had placed himsel...
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Edward Lewis Wallant belongs to a generation of American writers, such as Flannery O'Connor, John Updike, and Philip Roth, who came to their maturity in the 1950s and 1960s. Addressing the Faustian an...
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