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Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer was a prominent Polish American author, renowned for his works in the realms of science fiction, fantasy, and literature & fiction. He was born as Icek Hersz Zynger in Leocin village, near Warsaw, Poland, on November 21, 1902. Singer spent his formative years in Krochmalna, a street located near Warsaw's Jewish quarter, where he learned Yiddish and was immersed in the culture of the Jewish people. His father served as a rabbi, carrying out various religious and community functions, and his older siblings, Israel Joshua Singer and Esther Kreitman, were also authors.

Singer played a significant role in the Yiddish literary movement by choosing to write and publish solely in Yiddish. His family experienced significant hardships during the First World War, which led to their separation for safety reasons. Despite these challenges, Singer's writing career flourished, and he gained recognition for his work. In 1978, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his contributions to the field. Singer's memoir, "A Day Of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw," won the U.S. National Book Award in Children's Literature in 1970, and his collection "A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories" won the U.S. National Book Award in Fiction in 1974.
Manor Books
# Title Year
1 The Manor 1967
2 The Estate 1969
Standalone Novels
# Title Year
1 The Family Moskat 1950
2 Satan in Goray 1955
3 The Magician of Lublin 1959
4 The Slave 1962
5 The Manor and The Estate 1967
6 The Fearsome Inn 1967
7 Mazel and Shlimazel 1967
8 Elijah, the Slave 1970
9 Joseph and Koza 1971
10 The Topsy-Turvy Emperor of China 1972
11 The Wicked City 1972
12 Enemies, a Love Story 1972
13 The Hasidim 1973
14 The Fools of Chelm 1973
15 A Young Man in Search of Love 1978
16 Shosha 1978
17 Yentyl the Yeshiva Boy 1983
18 The Penitent 1983
19 Why Noah Chose the Dove 1984
20 The King of the Fields 1988
21 Scum 1991
22 The Certificate 1992
23 Meshugah 1994
24 Shadows on the Hudson 1998
Children's Books
# Title Year
1 The Wise Men of Chelm and the Foolish Carp 2020
Short Story Collections
# Title Year
1 Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories 1957
2 The Spinoza of Market Street 1961
3 A Day of Pleasure 1963
4 Short Friday and Other Stories 1963
5 Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories 1966
6 Seance 1968
7 A Friend of Kafka 1969
8 When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories 1969
9 A Crown of Feathers 1973
10 Passions 1975
11 Naftali the Storyteller and His Horse, Sus and Other Stories 1976
12 Old Love 1979
13 More Stories from My Father's Court 1980
14 The Power of Light 1980
15 Reaches of Heaven 1981
16 The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer 1982
17 Stories for Children 1984
18 The Image and Other Stories 1985
19 The Death of Methuselah 1988
20 The Last Demon 2011
21 A Letter to Mama and Other Uncollected Stories 2024
Non-Fiction Books
# Title Year
1 In My Father's Court 1956
2 Lost in America 1981
3 Love and Exile 1982
4 Conversations With Isaac Bashevis Singer 1985
5 My Love Affair with Miami Beach 1989
Literary Conversations Books
# Title Year
1 Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges 1969
2 Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz 1981
3 Conversations with Graham Greene 1983
4 Conversations with Eudora Welty 1985
5 Conversations with Walker Percy 1985
6 Conversations With Isaac Bashevis Singer 1985
7 Conversations with William Styron 1985
8 Conversations with Malcolm Cowley 1986
9 Conversations with Lillian Hellman 1986
10 Conversations with Tennessee Williams 1986
11 Conversations with Ernest Hemingway 1986
12 Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter 1987
13 Truman Capote: Conversations 1987
14 Conversations with Flannery O'Connor 1987
15 Conversations with Peter Taylor 1987
16 Conversations with Arthur Miller 1987
17 Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut 1988
18 Conversations with Edward Albee 1988
19 Conversations with Erskine Caldwell 1988
20 Conversations with Norman Mailer 1988
21 Conversations with Robert Graves 1989
22 Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates 1989
23 Conversations with Shelby Foote 1989
24 Conversations with Robertson Davies 1989
25 Conversations with James Baldwin 1989
26 Conversations with John Gardner 1990
27 Conversations with Richard Wilbur 1990
28 Conversations with Tom Wolfe 1990
29 Conversations with Raymond Carver 1990
30 Conversations with Eugene O'Neill 1990
31 Conversations with Reynolds Price 1991
32 Conversations with Bernard Malamud 1991
33 Conversations with Elizabeth Spencer 1991
34 Conversations with Nikki Giovanni 1992
35 Conversations With Thornton Wilder 1992
36 Conversations with Robert Coles 1992
37 Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher 1992
38 More Conversations with Walker Percy 1993
39 Conversations with Richard Wright 1993
40 Conversations with Paul Bowles 1993
41 Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris 1994
42 Conversations with Amiri Baraka 1994
43 Conversations with Toni Morrison 1994
44 Conversations with Saul Bellow 1994
45 Conversations with Henry Miller 1994
46 Conversations with Ernest Gaines 1995
47 Conversations with Ralph Ellison 1995
48 Conversations with Chester Himes 1995
49 Conversations with Susan Sontag 1995
50 Conversations with Ishmael Reed 1995
51 Conversations with Derek Walcott 1996
52 More Conversations with Eudora Welty 1996
53 Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop 1996
54 Conversations with Pauline Kael 1996
55 Conversations with V. S. Naipaul 1997
56 Conversations with N. Scott Momaday 1997
57 Conversations with Chinua Achebe 1997
58 Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston 1998
59 Conversations with Denise Levertov 1998
60 Conversations With William Faulkner 1999
61 Conversations with E. L. Doctorow 1999
62 Conversations With John Fowles 1999
63 Conversations with Salman Rushdie 2000
64 Conversations with William S. Burroughs 2000
65 Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko 2000
66 Conversations with Chaim Potok 2001
67 Conversations with Richard Ford 2001
68 Conversations with Christopher Isherwood 2001
69 Conversations with Mary Gordon 2002
70 Conversations with Jim Harrison 2002
71 Conversations with Clarence Major 2002
72 Conversations with Margaret Walker 2002
73 Conversations with Erica Jong 2002
74 Elie Wiesel: Conversations 2002
75 Joseph Brodsky: Conversations 2003
76 Conversations with Rita Dove 2003
77 Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald 2003
78 Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks 2003
79 Conversations with Stanley Kaufmann 2003
80 Conversations with Gloria Naylor 2004
81 Conversations with Audre Lorde 2004
82 Conversations with Ray Bradbury 2004
83 Conversations With John le Carré 2004
84 Conversations with Isaac Asimov 2005
85 Conversations with Don DeLillo 2005
86 Conversations with Gore Vidal 2005
87 Conversations with Robert Penn Warren 2005
88 Conversations with Jack Kerouac 2005
89 Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez 2005
90 Conversations with Thomas McGuane 2006
91 Conversations with Larry Brown 2007
92 Conversations with Sonia Sanchez 2007
93 Conversations with Wendell Berry 2007
94 Conversations with Leon Forrest 2007
95 Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro 2008
Collections
# Title Year
1 Old Truths and New Cliches 2022
Isaac Bashevis Singer Anthologies
# Title Year
1 Wandering Stars: An Anthology of Jewish Fantasy and Science Fiction 1973
2 The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales 1993
3 Florida Stories 1993
4 First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers 1994
5 A Century Of Children's Ghost Stories 1995
6 Writing New York 1998
7 Wonderful Town 2000
8 The Best American Short Stories of the Century 2000
9 The Inner Journey: Views from the Jewish Tradition 2007