[7] For Adam the King: "Lewis’s gripping fourth novel (after Theme Song for an Old Show ) traces one man’s heroic but flawed attempt to make good of past mistakes."
[8] For Berlin Cantata: “Lewis employs thirteen different voices to tell an astonishing story that raises unsettling questions about cultural and personal identity, desire across time, conspiracies of silence, exile and return, and problematizing the notion of home itself...a brilliantly conducted work by a master storyteller.” - Gary Percesepe, The Nervous Breakdown [9] For The Inquisitor’s Diary: “A succinct gem of literary fiction that asks which of us are entitled to salvation.” - Evan Rodriguez, Kirkus Reviews.
In lean, poetically precise prose he lays bare the realities of a town in decline and reveals the fears, secrets and aspirations that animate ordinary lives.
This highly accomplished short novel is a moving and humane portrait of small-town contemporary America.” - Simon Humphreys, Irish Mail on Sunday.
[11] “Comparisons between Jeffrey Lewis's deft, bittersweet portrait of a Maine community and Thornton Wilder’s 1938 stage classic Our Town are inevitable.
Humanitas Prize for 60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television 1985 Ceremony (11th annual): Hill Street Blues - Teleplay by David Milch & Roger Director Story by Steven Bochco, Jeffrey Lewis, David Milch for "Watt a Way to Go" - Nominee Writers Guild of America Award (all Best Screenplay – Episodic Drama) 1982: Hill Street Blues - Jeffrey Lewis for "Fruits of the Poisonous Tree" - Nominee 1983: Hill Street Blues - Teleplay by Anthony Yerkovich, David Milch, Karen Hall Story by Steven Bochco, Anthony Yerkovich, Jeffrey Lewis for "Eugene's Comedy Empire Strikes Back" - Nominee 1983: Hill Street Blues - David Milch, Jeffrey Lewis, Michael Wagner for "Gung Ho!"