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Edward Wallant

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1926, USA — 1962, USA

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United States

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Edward Lewis Wallant was an American novelist whose acclaimed The Pawnbroker (1961), about a Holocaust survivor, was filmed by Sidney Lumet, and whose work centered on Jewish-American protagonists wrestling with grief, guilt, and identity. He was a Jewish-American writer who published four novels before his death at 36, two of them posthumously.

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