Writing

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Born July 14, 1904 · Leoncin, Poland, Russian Empire [now Leoncin, Mazowieckie, Poland]

Died July 24, 1991 · aged 87

Isaac Bashevis Singer (Yiddish: יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער; November 11, 1903 – July 24, 1991) was a Polish-born Jewish-American novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, essayist, and translator. Some of his works were adapted for the theater. He wrote and published first in Yiddish and later translated his own works into English with the help of editors and collaborators. He was awarded the Nobel Prize…