The Jewish writer
By: Jill Krementz.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Henry Holt
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
Subjects: Jewish authors -- United States -- Portraits.; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Portraits.; Jews -- United States -- Intellectual life.; Judaism and literature -- United States.; Portrait photography.
Description: The Jews have been called "The People of the Book" for their love of reading and writing. This new collection, spanning three decades, brings together in photographs and text the many and varied Jewish voices - novelists, playwrights, poets, essayists, and scholars - that have enriched twentieth-century literature.