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Also Known As Israel Joshua Singer • Yisroyel Yeshue Zinger • Yisroel Yeshue Zinger
Born November 30, 1893 • Poland
Died February 10, 1944 (aged 50) • New York City • New York
Notable Works “The Brothers Ashkenazi” • “Yoshe Kalb”
Notable Family Members brother Isaac Bashevis Singer
Sholem Asch
Sholem Asch
American writer
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer
American author
Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel
American author
Chaim Grade
Yiddish author
Jacob Glatstein
American author and literary critic
Jerzy Kosinski
Jerzy Kosinski
American writer
Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair
American novelist
Anne Rice
Anne Rice
American author
Lew Wallace
Lewis Wallace
American author, soldier, and diplomat
James Blish
American author and critic
Simms, detail of an engraving published by Johnson, Fry and Company, 1861
William Gilmore Simms
American novelist
Kazimierz Pochwalski: Henryk Sienkiewicz
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Polish writer
Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, lithograph by François Le Villain after a portrait by Fabian Sarnecki.
Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz
Polish writer
Kraszewski, detail of an oil painting by X.J. Kaniewski; in the National Museum, Warsaw
Józef Ignacy Kraszewski
Polish writer
Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag
American writer
Marguerite Yourcenar
French author
William Wells Brown
William Wells Brown
American writer
poster advertising The Tailor Becomes a Storekeeper
David Pinski
Yiddish author
Homer Lea
American soldier and author
Paul Horgan
American author