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- Edward Lewis Wallant was born on October 19, 1926 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Edward Lewis was a writer, known for The Pawnbroker (1964). Edward Lewis was married to Joyce Fromkin. Edward Lewis died on December 5, 1962 in Norwalk, Connecticut, USA.
- SpouseJoyce Fromkin(1948 - December 5, 1962) (his death, 3 children)
- Served as a gunner's mate in the U.S. Navy during World War II.
- Shortly after Wallant's death in 1962, the Edward Lewis Wallant Award was established at the University of Hartford. It is presented annually to an American writer whose fiction is considered to have significance for American Jews.
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