I.J. Singer: Quick Facts

Written and fact-checked by

The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Also Known As	Israel Joshua Singer • Yisroel Yeshue Zinger • Yisroyel 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

Portrait of Sholem Asch around 1957, showing him with gray hair, a mustache, and wearing a suit and bow tie.

Sholem Asch

American writer

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer

American author

Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel

American author

default image

Chaim Grade

Yiddish author

default image

Jacob Glatstein

American author and literary critic

Jerzy Kosinski

Jerzy Kosinski

American writer

Upton Sinclair

Upton Sinclair

American novelist

Anne Rice in 2016, with gray bobbed hair, wearing a dark top and a beaded necklace, looking at the camera against a dark background.

Anne Rice

American author

Lew Wallace

Lewis Wallace

American author, soldier, and diplomat

default image

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 rests her chin on her hand, looking to the side, with long dark hair and a neutral expression.

Susan Sontag

American writer

default image

Marguerite Yourcenar

French author

William Wells Brown

William Wells Brown

American writer

poster advertising The Tailor Becomes a Storekeeper

David Pinski

Yiddish author

default image

Homer Lea

American soldier and author

default image

Paul Horgan

American author