Wallace Markfield

Novelist, Author

1926 – 2002

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Who was Wallace Markfield?

Wallace Markfield was an American comic novelist best known for his first novel, To an Early Grave, about four men who spend the day driving across Brooklyn to their friend's funeral. He is also known for Teitlebaum's Window, a comic novel about a Jewish boy growing up in Brooklyn in the 1930s and 1940s. Markfield was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1965 after the publication of To an Early Grave.

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Born
Aug 12, 1926
Brooklyn
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Abraham Lincoln High School
Died
May 24, 2002

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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