Wallace Markfield

Novelist + Writer

Male

Born Aug 12, 1926

Died May 24, 2002

Wallace Markfield was an American comic novelist best known for his first novel, To An Early Grave, 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… Read More

Romance

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Anna May Goodman

Married 1949
Betty Kelly
Fling

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James Arness Of 'Gunsmoke' Fame Dead At 88 Cbs News
Google News - Jun 04, 2011

"The camera really loved his face, and with good reason," novelist Wallace Markfield wrote in a 1975 "Gunsmoke" appreciation in The New York Times. "It was a face that would age well and that, while aging, would carry intimations of waste,
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Wallace Markfield, 75, Writer With A Humorous Sarcasm
NYTimes - May 31, 2002

Wallace Markfield, the author of ''To an Early Grave,'' ''Teitlebaum's Window'' and other satirical novels that earned him critical praise as a Brooklyn literary descendant of James Joyce, died last Friday at a hospital in Roslyn, N.Y. He was 75 and lived in Port Washington, N.Y. The cause was complications from a heart attack, his family said. Mr.
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Paid Notice: Deaths Markfield, Wallace
NYTimes - May 29, 2002

MARKFIELD - Wallace. Distin guished author, divine wit, dear friend. Vera Herbstman
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John Sturges, Film Director, Is Dead At 82
NYTimes - Aug 22, 1992

John Sturges, the director of action films like "The Magnificent Seven," "The Great Escape," "Gunfight at the O K Corral" and "Ice Station Zebra," died on Tuesday at French Hospital, near his home in San Luis Obispo, Calif. He was 82 years old. He died of emphysema, said Roberta Soules, his sister-in-law. Mr. Sturges's movies were often mean and
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1926 Birth Born in 1926.

TWENTIES

1947 21 Years Old Markfield graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School, earning a B.A. from Brooklyn College in 1947, then doing his graduate work at New York University between 1948-1950.

1948 22 Years Old In 1948 he married Anna May Goodman, the couple had a daughter. … Read More

FORTIES

1968 42 Years Old 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.

FIFTIES

1978 52 Years Old In an interview conducted in the spring of 1978 at Markfield's home in Port Washington, New York he said: "Orgasms was a first person narrative, completely through the eyes of a woman. … Read More

LATE ADULTHOOD

1999 73 Years Old … Dalkey Archive Press reissued Teitlebaum's Window in October 1999 and To an Early Grave in December 2000.

2002 76 Years Old Markfield died of a heart attack in Roslyn, New York on May 24, 2002.

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