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Edwin C. Sauter Jr. is a writer and a resident of Brooklyn, New York.
He received the Avery Hopwood award for his novella “Hours of a Longest Season” in 1958. It was from the viewpoint of a widow, reminiscing about her scholar husband, who left for her an inscription, “Love to Emily, my fan for the hot spring and summer games at Yale baseball field.”

 

It was selected by X.J. Kennedy and judged by Wallace Stegner and Andrew Leitell.

His older works were tragically destroyed in a fire in Newark harbor.

He is heavily influenced by Ernest Hemingway, William Faukner, and the great Russian writers.

Mr. Sauter Jr. believes the perfect film comedy is “The Horse’s Mouth” (1950) and the perfect film tragedy is “Hedda Gabler” (1963).