Wallace Markfield, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetWallace Markfield
American writer
Date of Birth: 12-Aug-1926
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Date of Death: 24-May-2002
Profession: novelist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About 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.
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