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Schwartz was born in New York City. His first novel The Blowtop has been called the first American existentialist novel, as well as the first of the Beat novels.
He lived by writing the Superman and Batman newspaper strips for many years. He also created the wildly popular Bizarro.
In 1968, he moved to Canada, where he wrote many documentaries for the Canadian National Film Board.
In the 1980s, he wrote a metaphysical autobiography, An Unlikely Prophet.
Currently, Schwartz writes a weekly web column while continuing work on a new long novel. The new novel presages the accumulating power of the European Union from the day the Berlin Wall collapsed.
He lives with his wife in the rural village of Chesterville, about 40 kilometers southeast of Ottawa.
AlvinSchwartz (born April 25, 1927, in Brooklyn, New York; died March 14, 1992) was the author of books dedicated to and dealing with topics such as folklore and wordplay, many of which were intended for young readers.
He is often confused with another AlvinSchwartz, who wrote Superman and Batman daily comics strips and a novel titled 'The Blowtop'.
Schwartz graduated from Colby College and received a graduate degree from Northwestern University.
Born in NYC in 1916, AlvinSchwartz wrote his first comics for Fairy Tale Parade in 1939, his first Batman story in 1942, his first Batman newspaper strip in Aug 44 and his first Superman newspaper strip in Oct 44.
While writing most of DC's newspaper strips between 1944 and 1952, he also went on to do Aquaman, Vigilante, Slam Bradley, Date With Judy, Buzzy, House of Mystery, Tomahawk, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Green Lantern, Newsboy Legion and numerous others in a long career with DC that ended in 1958.
So Schwartz did the operas which appeared in a small illustrated booklet with the lyrics.
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