Wallace Markfield
Wallace Markfield (August 12, 1926 – May 24, 2002) was an American comic novelist best known for his first novel, To an Early Grave (1964), about four men who spend the day driving across Brooklyn to their friend's funeral. He is also known for Teitlebaum's Window (1970), a comic novel about a Jewish boy growing up in Brooklyn in the 1930s and 1940s. Markfield was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1965 after the publication of To an Early Grave.
Life
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Work
In addition to To an Early Grave and Teitelbaum's Window Markfield also wrote You Could Live If They Let You (1974), Multiple Orgasms (1977) and Radical Surgery (1991). The 1991 thriller was already conceived by the end of the 1970s. Throughout his writing career, Markfield also contributed at least 40 articles to periodicals. Dalkey Archive Press reissued Teitelbaum's Window in October 1999 and To an Early Grave in December 2000.
Multiple Orgasms
In an interview conducted in the spring of 1978 at Markfield's home in Port Washington, New York he said: "[Multiple Orgasms] was a first person narrative, completely through the eyes of a woman. I found it awfully tiresome after a while, though I never find women tiresome. But she became just a great bore to me. After about a hundred and seventy-five pages or so, I just gave up. It was getting nowhere."[1] It was published only as a limited edition of about three hundred copies, individually numbered and signed by the author.
Release details
- 1964 To an Early Grave (ISBN 1-56478-261-1)
- 1970 Teitelbaum's Window (ISBN 1-56478-219-0)
- 1974 You Could Live If They Let You
- 1977 Multiple Orgasms
- 1991 Radical Surgery
- 2024 The Trojan Jew (ISBN 978-1-962461-09-2)
Cinema
In 1968 To an Early Grave was adapted for the screen under the title Bye Bye Braverman, directed by Sidney Lumet and starring George Segal and Jack Warden.
Sources
- ↑ O'Brien, John (1978). "A Conversation with Wallace Markfield". The Review of Contemporary Fiction. Retrieved 2013-04-30.
External links
- Wallace Markfield papers at the University of South Carolina Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.
- 1926 births
- 2002 deaths
- 20th-century American novelists
- American male novelists
- Jewish American novelists
- People from Port Washington, New York
- 20th-century American male writers
- Abraham Lincoln High School (Brooklyn) alumni
- Brooklyn College alumni
- New York University alumni
- 20th-century American Jews
- 21st-century American Jews