Original: Isaac Bashevis Singer ( ) ( November 21 , 1902 ( see notes below ) -- July 24 , 1991 ) was a Polish-born Jewish American Nobel Prize-winning author and one of the leading figures in the Yiddish literary movement .
Simplified: Isaac Bashevis Singer ( November 21 , 1902 -- July 24 , 1991 ) was a leading author in the Yiddish literature .