Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer (1903-1991) was a Polish-born Jewish-American author renowned for his Yiddish literature depicting Eastern European Jewish life, superstition, and the supernatural. Best known for short stories like those in Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories and novels such as The Family Moskat and Enemies, A Love Story, he emigrated to the US in 1935. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978 and two US National Book Awards.