← Wallace MarkfieldTo an Early Graveby Wallace MarkfieldComic novel of intellectuals and friends gathering for a Manhattan funeral processionFind on Amazon↗About the authorWallace MarkfieldWallace Markfield was a Brooklyn-bred Jewish novelist of comic melancholy whose To an Early Grave pioneered the New York intellectual satirical novel. His work influenced Philip Roth and other postwar Jewish American writers.More by Wallace MarkfieldTeitlebaum's Window→You Could Live If They Let You→Multiple Orgasms and Other Miracles→