Authors, Poets and Screenwriters
52% of all Pulitzer Prizes for Non-Fiction were awarded to Jews. Literature includes Books, Poems, Scripts, Screenplays, etc.more...
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Rabbi Harold S. Kushner - Author of "When Bad Things Happen to Good People", lecturer, Conservative…
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Isabel Fonseca - Internationally famous author: 'The Gypsies and their Journey'
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Isaac Asimov - The award-winning and prolific science fiction author
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Lawrence Schimel - author and anthologist, editor of Kosher Meat
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Leopold Dukes - Hungarian Hebrew scholar and author, 1810-91
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Fannie Hurst - (1889-1968) U.S. author: `Lummox' ; `A President Is Born'; `Five and Ten'
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Karl Jay Shapiro - U.S. poet, 1945 Pulitzer prize winner
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Alexander Harkavy - one of the most famous reseachers of Yiddish
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Anna Seghers - German-Jewish novelist, essayist, short story writer: The Seventh Cross, Transit
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Camillo Berneri - Anarchist who wrote 'The Anti-Semitic Jew'
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Immanuel ben Solomon - Hebrew-Italian poet and scholar, c.1265-c.1330
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Israel Zangwill - English novelist on Jewish themes: author of 'The King of Schnorrers' and 'Children…
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Samuel Usque - Portuguese Marrano chronicler wrote in 1553: 'Consolation for the Tribulations…
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Gladys Bronwyn Stern - English novelist: `The Matriarch Chronicles'
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Judah Leob Gordon - (1830-1892) Russian writer and 'poet laureate of the Haskalah'
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Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse - Nobel prize winner in Literature, 1830-1914
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Abraham Cahan - Author and Journalist: founding editor of The Jewish Daily Forward
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Joseph Jacobs - Jewish writer, historian, and folklorist, 1854-1916
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Waldo Frank - novelist, social historian, and political activist (1922 - 1965)
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Cynthia Ozick - Fiction Writer and Essayist
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Immanuel Velikovsky - Pseudoscience author: 'Worlds in Collision'
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Herman Heijermans - Dutch author (1864-1924) `The Good Hope'; `Rising Sun'; `The Ghetto'
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Saul Alinsky - Nihilist and American deconstructionist. Strong influences on the Clintons and…
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Henri Bergson - Author/Philosopher, Nobel prize for Literature
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Abraham Mapu - Lithuanian novelist who wrote in Hebrew, 1808-67
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Alter Esselin - A Yiddish Poet, author of 3 volumes of bittersweet lyrics
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Hermann Broch - One of the greatest 20.th century novelists. Ranks along Joyce or Musil.
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Arkady and Boris Strugatsky - The brothers are two of the most popular science fiction writers…
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Kathy Acker - an avant garde writer
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Clifford Odets - (1906-63) U.S. playwright: `Awake and Sing', `Paradise Lost', `The Flowering…
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Isaac Emanuilovich Babel - Russian short-story writer: `Stories of the Red Cavalry'; `You Must…
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Naomi Wolf - Feminist writer and activist
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Helene Cixous - Modern french playwright, essayist, novelist, and feminist
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Nelly Sachs - Poet, winner of the Nobel prize in Literature
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Sarah Foner - First woman to publish a Hebrew Novel
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Solomon ben Yehuda ibn Gabirol - (b. Spain 1021?-1058?) medieval Hebrew poet and philosopher
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Will Self - British novelist, broadcaster and critic
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Delmore Schwartz - poet, tormented soul - a true genius!
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Julian (Pesach) Stryjkowski (Stark) - Best known Polish/Jewish writer of the 20th century. Author…
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Nachman Krochmal - Jewish secular historian and writer: 'Guide to the Perplexed of Our Age', 1785…
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Edna Ferber - Pulitzer Prize-winning Novelist: 'Showboat', 'So Big', 'Giant', 'Ice Palace'
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Harold Pinter - English dramatist/playwrite: 'The Room', 'The Homecoming', 'The Pumpkin Eater…
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Bernard Malamud - Celebrated Author: The Fixer, The Naturalist, etc.
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Bette Greene - Award-winning Novelist: 'Summer of My German Soldier'', 'Philip Hall Likes Me,…
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Nathanael West - dark and nihilistic novelist of California themes
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Montague Glass - (1877-1934) U.S. humorous author: `Potash and Perlmutter'
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Ludwig Lewisohn - U.S. writer (1883-1955): `Up Stream'; `The Island Within'
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Aemilia Lanyer - Poet and proto-feminist, 1569 - 1645
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Marcia Falk - Poet and Hebrew/Yiddish liturgy translator
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Norman Mailer - Author, pundit, pugilist, mayoral candidate
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Dennis Prager - Popular author, radio talk show host, the greatest ambassador for Jews, traditional…
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Henry Roth - U.S. author: `Call It Sleep', `Mercy of a Rude Stream'
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Nadine Gordimer - South African novelist, Nobel prize-winner in Literature
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Dorothy Parker - Author and Poet: 'Laments for the Living', 'Death and Taxes'
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Gabriela Mistral - Nobel Prize-winning Poet from Chile
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Isaac Rosenberg - One of the greatest war poets of ww1
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Paul Celan - Poet and lecturer (Paul Antschel, 1920 - 1970) born in Czernowitz,
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Sol Yurick - Author: The Warriors (before the movie), Fertig (movie: The Confession)
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Gertrude Stein - highly modernistic and experimental American writer and eccentric
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Mark Ames - Author and journalist, editor of 'the eXile' (Moscow, Russia)
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Shmuel Yosef Agnon - Israeli writer, winner of the 1966 Nobel Prize: 'The Bridal Canopy'; `A Guest…
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Rachel - Hebrew Poet in Palestine, 1890-1931
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David Mamet - one of America's most important and influential playwrights
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Uri Orlev - Israeli author, Holocaust survivor
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Emma Lazarus - Poet, best known for the poem at the Statue of Liberty
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Walter Mosley - Crime fiction writer: Devil in a Blue Dress, Red Death, White Butterfly, Black…
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Saul Bellow - Pulitzer Prize winning Author
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Harlan Ellison - Author, actor, and civil rights activist: 'A Boy and His Dog', 'Babylon 5', …
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Alberto Moravia - jewish Italian author, writer and novelist
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Rod Serling - writer, author, screenwriter and creator of The Twilight Zone
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Maurice Sendak - author of Where the Wild Things Are
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Michael Chabon - Pulitzer-winning novelist: the Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Wonder…
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Elias Canetti - Bulgarian born essayist and novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature…
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Neil Gaiman - Author of novels (American Gods, Neverwhere), Graphic Novels (Sandman). Also writes…
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Neil Simon - Producer, playwright, and screenwriter: The Odd Couple, The Goodbye Girl, Biloxi…
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Stefan Zweig - Austrian biographer, poet, and novelist
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Lion Feuchtwanger - German-Jewish exile writer and playwrite known for his historical and Jewish…
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Italo Svevo - Italian Writer, Author of 'La Coscienza di Zeno' and 'As a Man Grows Older'
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Heinrich Heine - most translated German poet
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Sarah Gertrude Millin - (1889-1968) South African writer: 'God's Stepchildren'; `What Hath a Man…
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Herman Wouk - Author -'Winds of War', 'The Caine Mutiny', 'This is my God'
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Allen Ginsberg - Poet laureate of the Beat Generation
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J.D. Salinger - Author of 'The Catcher in the Rye'
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Mordecai Richler - Canada's foremost novelists, a controversial and prolific journalist
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Carl Sagan - astronomer and popular science author; made book and TV series 'Cosmos'
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Clarice Lispector - Universally recognised Brazilian-Ukranian writer
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Danielle Steele - Award winning and popular novelist
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Judy Blume - Popular children's author: 'Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing', 'Superfudge'
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Isaac Bashevis Singer - Author, Nobel Prize-winner for Literature
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Ayn Rand - Author of 'Atlas Shrugged,' 'The Fountainhead'; developed a philosophy called objectivism.…
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Chaim Potok - Popular Jewish author: 'The Chosen', 'The Promise', 'My Name is Asher Lev'
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Philip Roth - Pulitzer prixe-winning Author: 'Portnoy's Complaint', 'Goodbye, Columbus', 'Operaton…
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Chaim Grade - Chaim Grade is a famout jewish author/poet and holocaust survivor.
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Marcel Proust - (1871-1922) The French novelist: `Remembrance of Things Past'
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Yehuda Amichai - One of the World's greatest living poets
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Elie Wiesel - Jewish author: 'Night', winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace
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Arthur Miller - Wrote 'Death of a Salesman,' 'The Crucible,' other works
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Primo Levi - Italian writer and scientist, best known for his autobiographical writings on the…
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Mordechai Richler - Mordechai Richler was a great Canadian author who lived in Montreal and recently…
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Efraim Sevela - brilliant Soviet-Israeli screenwriter and author, 'Monya Tsatskes'
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Shalom Aleichem - Yiddish short-story writer, dramatist, and humorist
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Franz Kafka - author, The Trial, The Metamorphosis
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Jerzy Kosinsky - (1933-91) Novelist: `The Painted Bird', 'Being There'
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Miklos Radnoti - famous Hungarian poet who was slandered cruelly by fascism and died tragically…
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Anne Frank - Young Diarist, killed in Europe
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Shell Silverstein - author and poet of children's stories
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Alla Nazimova - Writer, actress, producer and visionary: 'War Brides', 'Camille', ' Salome'
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