Day: September 12, 2010

Author and professor, Alan Isler, died March 29, 2010 after a long illness. Born in London on September 12th, 1934, Alan Isler emigrated to the United States at the age of 18. He served in the US Army from 1954 to 1956. He received his doctorate in English Literature from Columbia University and taught Renaissance literature at Queens College, CUNY, from 1967 to 1995. His first novel, The Prince of West End Avenue, won the National Jewish Book Award in 1994 and was nominated as a finalist in fiction by the National Book Critics Circle. In England in 1995, it won the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize and was a finalist for the Writers’ Guild award. He is also the author of: Kraven Images (1996), The Bacon Fancier, also published as Op. Non. Cit. (1999), Clerical Errors (2002) and The Living Proof (2005). His work, noted for its wit and literary erudition, has been translated into more than twelve languages.