Edward Lewis Wallant
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Edward Lewis Wallant (1926-1962) was an American writer. During his life he published the novels The Human Season (1960) and The Pawnbroker (1961). Wallant - a devoted family man with much potential - died of an aneurysm at the age of 36. Two of his novels were published posthumously - The Tenants of Moonbloom (1963) and The Children at the Gate (1964)
Wallant began to write professionally aged thirty. He had served in the second world war, and had attended art school in New York. He had spent some time as an advertising art director in the city.
Wallant has an elegant and fluid writing style - his books are written in rich, free-flowing prose. Wallant has been compared to other Jewish American writers such as Saul Bellow and Phillip Roth
He was survived by his wife Joyce, who passed away in 1991; is survived by his son Scott, daughters Leslie and Kim, grandchildren Nina, Steve, Nora, Eddie, Jon, Esme and Ruth.
[edit] Bibliography
- The Human Season (1960)
- The Pawnbroker (1961)
- The Tenants of Moonbloom (1963)
- The Children at the Gate (1964)
