November 21, 1902 - July 24, 1991
Polish-American Yiddish writer and playwright
Author of "A Day of Pleasure: Stories of Growing Up in Warsaw" (for which he won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1970), "Enemies, A Love Story" and "A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories" (for which he won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1974)
Born Icek Hersz Zynger