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Edward Lewis Wallant Award
In 1962, the Edward Lewis Wallant Award was established at the University of Hartford, in Connecticut, USA by Fran and Irving Waltman. It is presented annually to a writer whose fiction is considered to have significance for American Jews. The award is named for Jewish American writer Edward Lewis Wallant. Awards *1963 - Norman Fruchter, ''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 Potok, ''The Chosen'' *1968 - no award *1969 - Leo Litwak, ''Waiting for the News'' *1970 - no award *1971 - Cynthia Ozick, ''The Pagan Rabbi'' *1972 - Robert Kotlowitz, ''Somewhere Else'' *1973 - Arthur A. Cohen, ''In the Days of Simon Stern '' *1974 - Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, ''Anya'' *1975 - Anne Bernays, ''Growing Up Rich'' *1976 - no award *1977 - Curt Leviant, ''The Yemenite Girl'' *1978 - no award *1979 - no award *1980 - Johanna Kaplan, ''O My America!'' *1981 - Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Hartford
The University of Hartford (UHart) is a private university in West Hartford, Connecticut. Its main campus extends into neighboring Hartford and Bloomfield. The university attracts students from 48 states and 43 countries. The university and its degree programs are accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (EAC/ABET), the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), and the New England Commission of Higher Education. History The University of Hartford was chartered through the joining of the Hartford Art School, Hillyer College, and The Hartt School in 1957. Prior to the charter, the University of Hartford did not exist as an independent entity. The Hartford Art School, which commenced operation in 1877, was founded by a group of women in Hartford, including Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mark Twain's wife, Olivia Langdon Clemens, as the Hartford Society for Decorative Art. Its original locati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Neugeboren
Jay Neugeboren (born Jacob Mordecai Neugeboren; May 30, 1938 in Brooklyn, New York, United States) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. Education Jay Neugeboren was born In Brooklyn, New York and raised in Flatbush. He went to Public School Number 246, Walt Whitman Junior High School (where he was its first president), and Erasmus Hall High School. He received a B. A., Phi Beta Kappa, from Columbia University, and a Master of Arts from Indiana University, where he was a University Fellow. Career He is the author of 24 books. He has won numerous awards, including fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Massachusetts Council on the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He has taught at Columbia University, Indiana University, Stanford University, the State University of New York at Old Westbury, the University of Freiburg (Germany), and was for many years (1971-2001) Professor and writer in residence at the University of Massachuset ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dara Horn
Dara Horn (born 1977) is a Jewish American novelist, essayist, and professor of literature. She has written five novels and in 2021, released a nonfiction essay collection titled ''People Love Dead Jews'', which was a finalist for the 2021 Kirkus Prize in nonfiction. She won the Edward Lewis Wallant Award in 2002, the National Jewish Book Award in 2003 and 2006, and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize in 2007. Early life and education Horn was born in 1977 and grew up in Short Hills, New Jersey with three siblings. She attended Millburn High School and was co-captain of the Quiz Bowl team. Her mother, Susan, was an English teacher with a Ph.D in Jewish studies. Horn's father, Matthew, is a dentist. The family travelled internationally during her childhood, and her parents encouraged Horn and her siblings to write journals about their trips. When Horn was 14, she won a trip to Poland and Israel in a quiz competition about Israeli history, and then wrote an essay about her trip for ''Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myla Goldberg
Myla Goldberg (born November 19, 1971) 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, where she was one of the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards winners in 1989. She majored in English at Oberlin College, graduating in 1996. She spent a year teaching and writing in Prague (providing the germ of her book of essays ''Time's Magpie'', which explores her favorite places within the city), then moved to Brooklyn, New York, where she still lives with her husband ( Jason Little) and two daughters. Goldberg is an accomplished amateur musician. She plays the banjo and accordion in a Brooklyn-based indie rock quartet, '' The Walking Hellos''. She has performed with The Galerkin Method and the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus. She formerly collaborated with the New York art collective Flux Factory. She has contributed song lyrics to the musical group One Ring Zero. Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judy Budnitz
Judy Budnitz (born 1973) is an American writer. She grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, attended Harvard University, was a fellow at Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and in 1998 received an MFA in creative writing from New York University. Bibliography Novels *''If I Told You Once'' (1999) Collections *''Flying Leap'' (1998) *''Nice Big American Baby'' (2005) Anthologies containing stories by Judy Budnitz *''The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Twelfth Annual Collection'' (1999) *"The Better of McSweeney's Volume One - Issues 1 -10" (2005) * " The Best American Non Required Reading" (2006) Awards *1995 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award *Shortlisted for the 2000 Orange Prize (''If I Told You Once'') *2000 Edward Lewis Wallant Award *2005 Lannan Literary Fellowship The Lannan Literary Awards are a series of awards and literary fellowships given out in various fields by the Lannan Foundation. Established in 1989, the awards are meant "to honor both established and emerging writers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allegra Goodman
Allegra Goodman (born 1967) is an American author based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Goodman wrote and illustrated her first novel at the age of seven. Biography Allegra Goodman was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Hawaii. The daughter of Lenn and Madeleine Goodman,"Allegra Goodman." ''Contemporary Authors Online''. Detroit: Gale, 2011. Retrieved via ''Biography in Context'' database, 2017-09-22. she was brought up as a Conservative Jew. Her mother, who died in 1996, was a professor of genetics and women's studies, then assistant vice president at the University of Hawaii at Manoa for many years, before moving on to Vanderbilt University in the 1990s. Her father, Lenn E. Goodman, is a professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt. Goodman graduated from Punahou School in 1985. She then went on to Harvard University, where she earned an A.B. degree and met her husband, David Karger. Both were regulars at Harvard Hillel, and prayed in Harvard Hillel Orthodox Minyan. They then wen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvey Grossinger
Harvey Grossinger is an American short story author and novelist. Life He holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from New York University, a Master of Arts from Indiana University, and a Master of Fine Arts from American University. He teaches at American University, and the University of Maryland, College Park. He is a member of the National Book Critics Circle. He lives in the Washington, D.C. area. His work has appeared in New England Review, '' Mid-American Review'', ''Western Humanities Review'', '' Cimarron Review'' and many other literary journals. Awards * ''The Quarry'', won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction in 1997.''Hartford Courant'', May 22, 1998 *The collection also won the Edward Lewis Wallant Award In 1962, the Edward Lewis Wallant Award was established at the University of Hartford, in Connecticut, USA by Fran and Irving Waltman. It is presented annually to a writer whose fiction is considered to have significance for American Jews. The award ... * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thane Rosenbaum
Thane Rosenbaum (born 1960) is an American novelist, essayist, and Distinguished University Professor. He is the director of the Forum on Life, Culture, & Society, hosted by Touro College. Rosenbaum is also the Legal Analyst for CBS News Radio and appears frequently on cable television news programs. Early life Rosenbaum was born in New York City, in Washington Heights, and grew up in Miami Beach, Florida, where his parents moved when he was nine years old. He is a child of Holocaust survivors. His mother had been in Majdanek, his father in various concentration camps, including Auschwitz. Their experiences in the Nazi death camps were not discussed within the household, but the subject has shaped Rosenbaum's career and writing. Education Rosenbaum graduated in 1981, from the University of Florida (B.A., summa cum laude), where he was class valedictorian and the Florida nominee for the Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships. In 1983, he earned an M.P.A. (conferred in 1988) from Colum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebecca Goldstein
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (born February 23, 1950) is an American philosopher, novelist, and public intellectual. She has written ten books, both fiction and non-fiction. She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy of science from Princeton University, and is sometimes grouped with novelists such as Richard Powers and Alan Lightman, who create fiction that is knowledgeable of, and sympathetic toward, science. In her three non-fiction works, she has shown an affinity for philosophical rationalism, as well as a conviction that philosophy, like science, makes progress, and that scientific progress is itself supported by philosophical arguments. She has also stressed the role that secular philosophical reason has made in moral advances. Increasingly, in her talks and interviews, she has been exploring what she has called "mattering theory" as an alternative to traditional utilitarianism. This theory is a continuation of her idea of "the mattering map", first suggested in her novel ''The Mind� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Shapiro (writer)
Gerald David Shapiro (August 23, 1950 – October 15, 2011) 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 Slater. Education He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Kansas and M.F.A. from the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Academic positions * University of Nebraska-Lincoln * Harris Center for Judaic Studies Awards Honor Award in Fiction from The Nebraska Center for the Book and the Ohio State University Prize in Short Fiction and the Pushcart Prize for Fiction and the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for Jewish Fiction. He has also been a finalist for the 2000 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. Also won a Merit Award from the Nebraska Arts Council's Individual Artists Fellowships program. Works His stories have a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melvin Jules Bukiet
Melvin Jules Bukiet is an author and literary critic. He has 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 ''Scribblers on the Roof''. He won the 1992 Edward Lewis Wallant Award. References External links * Sheryl Silver Ochayon''Interview With Melvin Jules Bukiet, Author and Professor, Sarah Lawrence College. On History and Fiction'' in Yad Vashem Yad Vashem ( he, יָד וַשֵׁם; literally, "a memorial and a name") is Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. It is dedicated to preserving the memory of the Jews who were murdered; honoring Jews who fought against th ... website 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists American historical novelists Living people American male novelists 20th-century Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerome Badanes
Jerome (; la, Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus; grc-gre, Εὐσέβιος Σωφρόνιος Ἱερώνυμος; – 30 September 420), also known as Jerome of Stridon, was a Christian priest, confessor, theologian, and historian; he is commonly known as Saint Jerome. Jerome was born at Stridon, a village near Emona on the border of Dalmatia and Pannonia. He is best known for his translation of the Bible into Latin (the translation that became known as the Vulgate) and his commentaries on the whole Bible. Jerome attempted to create a translation of the Old Testament based on a Hebrew version, rather than the Septuagint, as Latin Bible translations used to be performed before him. His list of writings is extensive, and beside his biblical works, he wrote polemical and historical essays, always from a theologian's perspective. Jerome was known for his teachings on Christian moral life, especially to those living in cosmopolitan centers such as Rome. In many cases, he focu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
