The Edward Lewis Wallant Award is an annual literary award presented to a writer whose fiction is considered to have significance for American Jews. It was established in 1962 at the

University of Hartford The University of Hartford (UHart) is a private university in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Its main campus extends into neighboring Hartford and Bloomfield. It enrolled approximately 6,000 undergraduate and graduate students as ...

by Fran and Irving Waltman. The award is named for Jewish American writer Edward Lewis Wallant.

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