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Markfield was born in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School, earning a Bachelor of Arts from Brooklyn College in 1947, then doing his graduate work at New York University between 1948-1950.
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Wallace Markfield
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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. He later taught creative writing at San Francisco State College (1966-1968), Kirkland College (1968-1969), and Queens College (1971-1973).
At the time of his death he had been working on a novel for eleven years.
Markfield died of a heart attack in Roslyn, New York, on May 24, 2002. 1964 To an Early Grave ()
1970 Teitlebaum"s Window ()
1974 You Could Live If They Let You
1977 Multiple Orgasms
1991 Radical Surgery.
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