This author won a National Book Award for his collection A Crown of Feathers.
This author won a National Book Award for his collection A Crown of Feathers. Many of his works, like the novel The Slave and the story "The Slaughterer", advocate vegetarianism. He wrote about Hermann Broder's accidental bigamy and about the many loves of the stage magician Yasha Mazur in his works Enemies: A Love Story and The Magician of Lublin, respectively. The messianic cult of (*) Shabbatai Zevi sweeps the title town in another work by this author. His most famous short story is about a man who marries the unfaithful Elka, is mocked by Rietze the Candle-Dipper, and is told by the Spirit of Evil to use urine in his baking. For 10 points, name this Jewish-American author of Satan in Goray and "Gimpel the Fool."
This author won a National Book Award for his collection A Crown of Feathers.
Isaac Bashevis Singer