Alan Isler

Alan Isler (born 1934 in London ; † March 29, 2010 ) was a British writer .

Isler emigrated to the USA in 1952 . From 1954 to 1956 he served in the US Army. He received his PhD in English literature from Columbia University on the Elizabethan writer Philip Sidney . In 1967 he became professor of English literature at Queens College of the City University of New York , where he remained until his retirement in 1995th

His first novel, The Prince of West End Avenue , won the National Jewish Book Award in 1994. The following year he reached the round of the last twelve at the prestigious Booker Prize with this book . In 1996 he was awarded the Wingate Literary Prize . Isler last lived in New York and Sag Harbor .

Alan Isler was married to Dr. Ellen Isler. He had four children and two stepchildren.

Works

• The moral philosophy of Sidney's two Arcadias. A study of some principal themes. Microfilm , Ph. D. Columbia University 1966.
• The Prince of West End Avenue , 1996.
  • The Prince of West End Avenue , novel. German by Karin Kersten , Berlin-Verlag Munich 1996, ISBN 978-3-8270-0184-9 .
• The Bacon Fancier (also published as Op. Non. Cit.), 1997.
  • Op.non.cit. , Four short stories. From the English by Heidi Zerning, Berlin-Verlag Munich 1996, ISBN 978-3-8270-0257-0 .
• Kraven Images , 1997.
  • Goetzens pictures , novel. From the English by Heidi Zerning, Berlin-Verlag Munich 1998, ISBN 978-3-8270-0221-1 .
• Clerical Errors , 2002.
  • Clerical Errors , Roman. Translated from the English by Stefanie Schaffer-de Vries, Berlin-Verlag Munich 2002, ISBN 978-3-8270-0383-6 .
• The Living Proof , 2005.
  • The living proof , novel. Translated from the English by Silvia Morawetz , Berlin-Verlag Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-8270-0580-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Alan Isler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Obituary in the New York Times

literature

Uwe Meyer: "'My libido [...] has always been quite normal': Love and Sexuality Among the Elderly in the Works of Alan Isler". In: Jansohn, Christa (ed.): Old Age and Aging in British and American Culture and Literature . Münster 2004, pp. 197–211 (= Studies on English Literature , edited by Dieter Mehl, Vol. 16).

Uwe Meyer: "'[T] o rot on inhospitable ground': The World of Academia In the Works of Alan Isler." In: Fielitz, Sonja / Meyer, Uwe (eds.): Shakespeare. Satire. Academia. Essays in Honor of Wolfgang Weiss . Heidelberg 2012, pp. 143–165 (= English research , ed. By Rüdiger Ahrens, Heinz Antor, Klaus Stierstorfer, vol. 424).