13 Facts About Walter Abish

Walter Abish was an Austrian-born American author of experimental novels and short stories.

In 1949, they relocated to Israel, where Abish served in the army and developed an interest in writing.

Walter Abish settled in the United States in 1957 and became an American citizen three years later.

Walter Abish was conferred a literature fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts in 1979.

Walter Abish published a second novel, How German Is It, the following year.

Walter Abish received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur Fellowship, and sat on the contributing editorial board of the literary journal Conjunctions.

Walter Abish tears treasured portraits from our culture's family album and thrusts them into his cunning slide carousel.

Walter Abish worked and taught at Empire State College, Wheaton College, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Columbia University, Brown University, Yale University, and Cooper Union.

Walter Abish served on the board of International PEN from 1982 to 1988.

Walter Abish was on the board of governors for the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Walter Abish was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998.

Walter Abish married Cecile Gelb, a photographer and sculptor, in 1953.

Walter Abish died on May 28,2022, at Mount Sinai Beth Israel in Manhattan at 90 years old.