Edward Lewis Wallant Award
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In 1962, the Edward Lewis Wallant Award was established at the University of Hartford
, in Connecticut, USA. It is presented annually to an American writer whose fiction is considered to have significance for American Jews. The award is named for Jewish American writer Edward Lewis Wallant
.
University of Hartford
The University of Hartford is a private, independent, nonsectarian, coeducational university located in West Hartford, Connecticut. The degree programs at the University of Hartford hold the highest levels of accreditation available in the US, including the Engineering Accreditation Commission of...
, in Connecticut, USA. It is presented annually to an American writer whose fiction is considered to have significance for American Jews. The award is named for Jewish American writer Edward Lewis Wallant
Edward Lewis Wallant
Edward Lewis Wallant was an American writer.-Life:He lived most of his life in New Haven, Connecticut. Yet his years at Pratt in Brooklyn, daily commuting to the city and frequent visits to jazz clubs impacted the New York settings of his books.His first works were short stories published in the...
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Awards
- 1963 Norman FruchterNorman Fruchter-Life:He graduated from Rutgers University, in 1959, where he edited the literary magazine, Anthologist.He was arrested protesting with CORE and James L. Farmer, Jr., Bayard Rustin, Rev. Donald Harrington, and Michael Harrington, at the 1964 New York World's Fair. From 1960 to 1962, he served as...
, Coat Upon a Stick - 1964 Seymour Epstein, Leah
- 1965 Hugh Nissenson, A Pile of Stones
- 1966 Gene Hurwitz, Home Is Where You Start From
- 1967 Chaim PotokChaim PotokChaim Potok was an American Jewish author and rabbi. Potok is most famous for his first book The Chosen, a 1967 novel which was listed on The New York Times’ best seller list for 39 weeks and sold more than 3,400,000 copies.-Biography :Herman Harold Potok was born in The Bronx, New York City, to...
, The Chosen - 1968 No Award
- 1969 Leo Litwak, Waiting for the News
- 1970 No Award
- 1971 Cynthia OzickCynthia OzickCynthia Ozick is an American short story writer, novelist, and essayist. She is the niece of the Hebraist Abraham Regelson.-Background:Cynthia Shoshana Ozick was born in New York City, the second of two children...
, The Pagan Rabbi - 1972 Robert Kotlowitz, Somewhere Else
- 1973 Arthur A. CohenArthur A. CohenArthur Allen Cohen was an American Jewish scholar, theologian and author.Cohen wrote The Natural and the Supernatural Jew , tracing the history of Jewish theology from the late 15th century, through the German Jewish renaissance, and into what he saw as a hopeful yet troubled American Jewish scene...
, In the Days of Simon Stern - 1974 Susan Fromberg SchaefferSusan Fromberg SchaefferSusan Fromberg Schaeffer was a noted novelist and poet who was a Professor of English at Brooklyn College for over thirty years...
, Anya - 1975 Anne BernaysAnne BernaysAnne Bernays is an American novelist, editor, and teacher.-Life:A graduate of Barnard College, she was managing editor of discovery, a literary magazine, before moving from New York to Cambridge, MA, in 1959 when she began her career as a novelist.Bernays has been published widely in national...
, Growing Up Rich - 1976 No Award
- 1977 Curt LeviantCurt LeviantCurt Leviant is a retired Jewish Studies professor, as well as a novelist and translator.He came to the United States in 1938 and received his BA from CUNY , his MA from Columbia, and his PhD. from Rutgers, where he taught Hebraic studies from 1960. He writes for The Nation.-Novels:*The Yemenite...
, The Yemenite Girl - 1978 No Award
- 1979 No Award
- 1980 Johanna Kaplan, O My America!
- 1981 Allen Hoffman, Kagan's Superfecta
- 1982 No Award
- 1983 Francine ProseFrancine ProseFrancine Prose is an American writer. Since March 2007 she has been the president of PEN American Center. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1968 and received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1991....
, Hungry Hearts - 1984 No Award
- 1985 Jay Neugeboren, Before My Life Began
- 1986 Daphne MerkinDaphne MerkinDaphne Miriam Merkin is a literary critic, essayist and novelist. Merkin is a graduate of Barnard College. She also attended Columbia University's graduate program in English literature....
, Enchantment - 1987 Steve SternSteve SternSteve Stern is a critically acclaimed author from Memphis, Tennessee. Much of his work draws inspiration from Yiddish folklore.- Biography :Stern was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1947, the son of a grocer...
, Lazar Malkin Enters Heaven - 1988 Tova Reich, Master of the Return
- 1989 Jerome Badanes, The Final Opus of Leon Solomon
- 1990 No Award
- 1991 No Award
- 1992 Melvin Jules BukietMelvin Jules BukietMelvin Jules Bukiet is an author and literary critic. He jas written a number of novels, including Sandman's Dust, After, While the Messiah Tarries, Signs and Wonders, Strange Fire, and A Faker's Dozen. He edited the collections Neurotica: Jewish Writers on Sex, Nothing Makes You Free, and...
, Stories of an Imaginary Childhood - 1993 Gerald ShapiroGerald ShapiroThis article is about the author. Gerald Shapiro was an American writer who had published three prize-winning books and was Cather Professor of English at the University of Nebraska. He was also a reader for Prairie Schooner. He lived in Lincoln, Nebraska with his wife, the writer Judith...
, From Hunger - 1994 No Award
- 1995 Rebecca GoldsteinRebecca GoldsteinRebecca Goldstein is an American novelist and professor of philosophy. She has written five novels, a number of short stories and essays, and biographical studies of mathematician Kurt Gödel and philosopher Baruch Spinoza....
, Mazel - 1996 Thane RosenbaumThane RosenbaumThane Rosenbaum is a novelist, essayist, and law professor . He is the author of two novels, The Golems of Gotham and Second Hand Smoke , and a collection of short stories, Elijah Visible Thane Rosenbaum is a novelist, essayist, and law professor (http://thanerosenbaum.com/). He is the author of...
, Elijah Visible - 1997 Harvey GrossingerHarvey Grossinger-Life:He holds a B.A. in English from New York University, an M.A. from Indiana University, and an M.F.A. in from American University.He teaches at American University, and University of Maryland, College Park. He is a member of the National Book Critics Circle. He lives in the Washington, D.C...
, The Quarry - 1998 No Award
- 1999 Allegra GoodmanAllegra GoodmanAllegra Goodman is an American author based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her most recent novel, The Cookbook Collector, was published in 2010. Goodman wrote and illustrated her first novel at the age of seven. -Early years and family:...
, Kaaterskill Falls - 2000 Judy BudnitzJudy BudnitzJudy Budnitz is an American author. She grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. Budnitz attended Harvard University, was a fellow at Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and received an MFA in creative writing from New York University in 1998....
, If I Told You Once - 2001 Myla GoldbergMyla GoldbergMyla Goldberg is an American novelist and musician.-Biography:Goldberg was born into a Jewish family. She was raised in Laurel, Maryland, and graduated from Eleanor Roosevelt High School. She majored in English at Oberlin College, graduating in 1993...
, Bee Season - 2002 Dara HornDara HornDara Horn is an American novelist and professor of literature.-Education and career:Dara Horn was born in New Jersey in 1977 and received her Ph.D. in comparative literature from Harvard University in 2006. In 2007 Dara Horn was chosen by Granta magazine as one of the Best Young American...
, In the Image - 2003 Joan Leegant, An Hour in Paradise
- 2004 Jonathan Rosen, Joy Comes in the Morning
- 2005 Nicole KraussNicole KraussNicole Krauss is an American author best known for her novels Man Walks Into a Room , The History of Love and, most recently, Great House...
, The History of Love - 2006 No Award
- 2007 Ehud HavazeletEhud HavazeletEhud Havazelet is an American novelist and short story writer.-Early life and education:Ehud Havazelet was born in Jerusalem, Israel. His father, Meir Havazelet, a rabbi and professor at Yeshiva University emigrated to the United States in 1957...
, Bearing the Body - 2008 Eileen PollackEileen PollackEileen Pollack is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. She is the director of the Master of Fine Arts Program at the University of Michigan...
, In the Mouth - 2009 Sara HoughtelingSara HoughtelingSara Houghteling is an American novelist and educator.-Biography:She was born in 1977 and graduated from Harvard magna cum laude in 1999. She received her Master's in Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of Michigan in 2003...
, Pictures at an Exhibition