Lawrence Edward Watkin
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Emerging from Camden, New York, Watkin earned a BA at Syracuse and a master’s at Harvard before joining the English faculty at Washington and Lee University, where he taught from 1926 until his naval service in 1942. His literary breakthrough arrived with the 1937 novel On Borrowed Time, which secured the National Book Award for Bookseller Discovery, enjoyed a Broadway run and a 1939 film starring…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources