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American novelist

Hilma Wolitzer (born 1930) is an American novelist.^[1]

Career

Wolitzer's first novel for adults, Ending, was published in 1974.

In his review of the novel, lead New York Times critic Anatole Broyard wrote, “After finishing Wolitzer’s book, I felt as if I had been on the brink of the abyss, pulled back by a last‐minute reprieve. My first impulse was to rush out and live, to grasp at existence as every instant of it was climactic .

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. Apocalyptic as sounds, Ending made me feel I never wanted to take anything for granted again. If you have ever smelled death, really recognized it, life is a miracle. You can understand Marie Antoinette's saying, to the executioner, on the platform of the guillotine, ‘one more moment of happiness!’”^[2]Ending was the loose basis for Bob Fosse's 1979 film All That Jazz.^[3]

The recipient of Guggenheim and NEA fellowships and an Award in Literature from the American Academy