Green, Gerald b. April 8, 1922 d. August 29, 2006 Author. He was born as Gerald Greenberg in Brooklyn, New York. Green is best remembered for his screenplay for the NBC television miniseries "Holocaust" (1978), for which he received an Emmy Award, and as the author of the famous novel "The Last Angry Man", which was filmed in 1959. His other novels include "His Majesty O'Keefe". In 1979, Green received the Dag Hammarskjold International Prize. (Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni) Independent Hebrew Cemetery, Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA Plot: Section D, Row 5
Wallant, Edward Lewis b. October 19, 1926 d. December 5, 1962 Author. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, he is considered one of the most important writers of his generation along with Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, Saul Bellow and Norman Mailer. He served in the army during Second World War, and he moved to New York where ended his studies of art. In 1960, he published his first novel "The Human Season" and one year later, he published his book "The Pawnbroker", a work that reflected the life of the survivors of a Nazi death camp. This book was finalist for...[Read More] (Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni) Independent Hebrew Cemetery, Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA