The protagonist is rehabilitated by Dr. Langsam after being forced to marry Mina in his A Simple Story, while the title character spars with Daniel Bach and befriends Yeruham Freeman as head of the Beit Midrash in A Guest for the Night.  
In one of this man's works, a drought dissipates after the protagonist is bitten by a mad dog and dies, while in a novel by this author a man is able to sail across the ocean on his kerchief after missing his boat in the course of helping a woman locate her husband.  He changed his surname to a bastardization of the original title of his story "Forsaken Wives," which was followed shortly by the novella And the Crooked Shall be Made Straight.  The protagonist is rehabilitated by Dr. Langsam after being forced to marry Mina in his A Simple Story, while the title character spars with Daniel Bach and befriends Yeruham Freeman as head of the Beit Midrash in A Guest for the Night.  Better-known for a picaresque novel about Reb Yudel Nathanson, The Bridal Canopy, this is, for 10 points, what Israeli author who in 1966 shared the Nobel Prize in Literature with Nelly Sachs?
In one of this man's works, a drought dissipates after the protagonist is bitten by a mad dog and dies, while in a novel by this author a man is able to sail across the ocean on his kerchief after missing his boat in the course of helping a woman locate her husband.  
Shmuel Yosef Agnon [or Shai Agnon or Shmuel Yosef Halevi Czaczkes or ????? ???? ?????]