Awards & Winners

Wallace Markfield

Date of Birth 12-August-1926
Place of Birth Brooklyn
(United States of America, New York City, New York, New York-White Plains-Wayne, NY-NJ Metropolitan Division)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Writer, Novelist
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.

Awards by Wallace Markfield

Check all the awards nominated and won by Wallace Markfield.

1965


Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada
(Fiction)

Nominations 1965 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Fiction To an Early Grave