Isaac Bashevis Singer (ca. 1903–1991) was the author of many novels, stories, children’s books and a memoir. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978.

David Stromberg is a writer, translator, and literary scholar based in Jerusalem, and editor to the Isaac Bashevis Singer Literary Trust. His work has appeared in The American Scholar, Literary Matters, and Speculative Nonfiction; his latest book is IDIOT LOVE and the Elements of Intimacy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).