Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer (b. 1904 in Radzymin, Poland, d. 1991) won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1978.

Isaac Bashevis Singer was the son of a rabbi. He emigrated in 1935 to the USA, where he started writing as a journalist and columnist for the Forward, a Jewish New York newspaper. He wrote nearly all his work in Jiddish.