To an Early Grave

-- A satire on the Jewish literary establishment of the 1950s and 1960s, To An Early Grave details the comic odyssey of Morroe Rief and three old friends, New York intellectuals and literary men, reunited by the death of their former leader Leslie Braverman, as they try to make it to his funeral on time.-- To An Early Grave was the basis for the film Bye Bye Braverman directed by Sidney Lumet and starring George Segal.-- Born in Brooklyn in 1926, Markfield is the author of four novels, including Teitlebaum's Window and You Could Live If They Let You.-- First published by Simon & Schuster (1964), most recent paperback by Pocket Books (1964).Markfield, Wallace is the author of 'To an Early Grave', published 2000 under ISBN 9781564782618 and ISBN 1564782611.