Awards & Winners

Alan Isler

Date of Birth 12-September-1934
Place of Birth London
(England, United Kingdom, Great Britain)
Nationality
Profession Professor, Novelist
Alan Isler was an American novelist and professor. He left his native England for the United States at age 18, served in the US Army from 1954 to 1956, received a doctorate in English Literature from Columbia University and taught Renaissance Literature at Queens College, City University of New York from 1967 to 1995. In 1994 he won the National Jewish Book Award and the JQ Wingate Prize for his first novel “The Prince of West End Avenue”, which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has subsequently published four other works: “Kraven Images”; “The Bacon Fancier”, also known as “Op.Non.Cit.”,; “Clerical Errors”; and “The Living Proof”. His writing is dense but comical, referential and intellectual in the tradition of Nabokov, and often concerned with the bitter-sweet condition of the solitary Jew in a Gentile world. Alan Isler died after a long illness on March 29, 2010.

Awards by Alan Isler

Check all the awards nominated and won by Alan Isler.

1994


National Jewish Book Award for Fiction
Honored for : The Prince of West End Avenue

Nominations 1994 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction The Prince of West End Avenue