Authors and Illustrators Database

Leo Ezra Litwak

Born: 05/28/1924  Detroit, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent
Parents: Isaac Litwak (a labor leader), Bessie Litwak
Children: Jessica (a playwright)
Address(es):
Permanent:
246 Chattanooga St.
#246
San Francisco, CA 94114
Contact Information:
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 415-695-9977

Writings

Image Title Genre Audience Publisher Date
Home for Sale
- A saga about Detroit in the 50s, a disintegrating city that moves toward integration even as its white residents sell their homes to African American families and move to the suburbs. Semi-autobiographical 		Fiction, Michigan Adult Berkley, CA : El Leon Literary Arts 2012
Medic : Life and Death in the Last Days of WW II
- Autobiographical 		Non Fiction Adult Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books 2001
"Spirits". West of the West: imagining California : an anthology. Fiction Adult Oakland, CA : University of California Press 1995
College Days in Earthquake Country: Ordeal at San Francisco State
- Co-author with Herbert Wilner (A Personal Record) 		Non Fiction Adult New York: Random House 1971
Waiting for the News
- Set in Detroit and covers the period 1938-1945. A man is driven by an almost religious fanaticism about trade unionism. Nearly a biography. 		Fiction, Michigan Adult Detroit, MI : Wayne State University Press 1969
The single voice: an anthology of contemporary fiction Fiction Adult New York : Collier Books 1969
To the Hanging Gardens Fiction Adult Cleveland, Ohio : World Publishing 1964
Other writings
- Articles in Partisan Review, Esquire, and Midstream, The New York Times Magazine, and Tikkun. 		Non Fiction Adult

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Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author

Awards:

Name Date
Ann and Robert Cowan Writers' Award for lifetime achievement 2008
O. Henry Awards, First Prize, for "The Eleventh Edition" 1990
Jewish Book Council of the National Jewish Welfare Board
- Waiting for the News 		1970
Guggenheim Fellowship 1970
Daroff Memorial Prize 1970
Edward Lewis Wailan Memorial Book Award 1969
Longview Foundation Award for "All Men Are," 1960
American Authors and Books

Inclusion in biographical or critical works:

Name Date
Michigan Authors, 3rd edition 1993
Literary Michigan by the Michigan Council for the Humanities 1988
Michigan Authors, 2nd ed. 1980
Michigan in Fiction
- Michigan Department of Education 		1976
Contemporary Authors
-  Contemporary Authors, volume(s) 5-8R Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, volume(s) 22 		1970-1988
Contemporary Novelists
Directory of American Fiction Writers
International Authors and Writers Who's Who
Writers Directory

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
Graduate study Columbia University New York, NY 1948-1951
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Wayne State University Detroit, MI 1948
Attended University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 1942

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
Lecturer Stanford University Stanford, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent 1966-1967
Professor
- Emeritus 		San Francisco State University San Francisco, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent 1964-1995
Assistant Professor
- Teacher of literature and creative writing 		San Francisco State University San Francisco, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent 1961-1964
Instructor of Philosophy Washington University St. Louis 1951-1960
Medic United States Army 1943-1946
Visiting lecturer

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