# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-lewis-wallant
# Generated: 2026-08-15T11:58:25.266Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edward-lewis-wallant"
name: "Edward Lewis Wallant"
slug: "edward-lewis-wallant"
description: "Edward Lewis Wallant was an American novelist who wrote The Pawnbroker (1961). It was adapted into an award-winning film of the same name, directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Rod Steiger. He also worked in the 1950s as an art director at the advertising firm McCann Erickson."
tagline: "American writer (1926–1962)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1926-10-19"
deathDate: "1962-12-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.98
  momentum:             7.183045761440361
  historical:           6.144349333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0908949/"
    handle:    "nm0908949"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edward_Lewis_Wallant"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA"
    title: "ادوارد ليويس والانت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Lewis_Wallant"
    title: "Edward Lewis Wallant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Lewis_Wallant"
    title: "Edward Lewis Wallant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Lewis_Wallant"
    title: "Edward Lewis Wallant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Lewis_Wallant"
    title: "Edward Lewis Wallant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q362615"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1146980"
    title: "Edward Lewis Wallant"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump