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Name
  
Leo Litwak


Role
  
Short story writer

Education
  
Columbia University (1948–1951), Wayne State University

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada

Books
  
The medic, Waiting for the News, Home for Sale, Nobody's Baby and Other Sto

Leo E. Litwak (born 1924, Detroit) is an American short story writer, and novelist.

Contents

Life

He attended Wayne State University and Columbia University. He taught at San Francisco State University.

His work appeared in The New York Times, His papers are held at Washington University.

Litwak's daughter is playwright Jessica Litwak. He has two granddaughters.

Awards

  • 1970 Guggenheim Fellow
  • 1970 National Jewish Book Award
  • 1990 O. Henry Award
  • Works

  • "The Eleventh Edition" TriQuarterly, No. 74, Winter 1989
  • Novels

  • To the Hanging Gardens (1964) Andre Deutsch
  • Waiting for the News (1969)
  • Non-fiction

  • College Days in Earthquake Country (1971)
  • Medic 2001
  • Anthologies

  • Leonard Michaels, David Reid, Raquel Scherr, eds. (1995). "Spirits". West of the West: imagining California : an anthology. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-20164-4. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)
  • Jerome Charyn, ed. (1969). The single voice: an anthology of contemporary fiction. Collier Books. 
  • Criticism

  • Leo E. Litwak (January 29, 1967). "Hell's Angels". The New York Times Book Review. 
  • LEO E. LITWAK (January 29, 1967). "On the Wild Side". The New York Times. 
  • Leo E. Litwak (December 31, 1967). "A Trip to Esalen Institute--". The New York Times. 
  • References

    Leo E. Litwak Wikipedia