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Jewish Authors

YGK These Jewish-American Authors

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The "Big Three" science fiction author who created the "Three Laws of Robotics" and the Foundation series Isaac Asimov
The robopsychologist who narrates her life's work in Asimov's I, Robot Dr. Susan Calvin
The Saul Bellow novel about a divorced professor who considers killing his wife Madeleine and her new husband Herzog
The picaresque Bellow novel featuring a Chicago "everyman" who meets his wife Stella in Mexico The Adventures of Augie March
The Bellow novel featuring Charlie Citrine and his mentor Von Humboldt Fleisher Humboldt’s Gift
The author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, featuring cousins who create the comic character "The Escapist" Michael Chabon
The Chabon novel set in a Jewish refugee settlement in Alaska involving a plot to blow up the Dome of the Rock The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
The Jewish activist and poet whose sonnet "The New Colossus" is inscribed on the Statue of Liberty's pedestal Emma Lazarus
The famous line from "The New Colossus" describing the people Liberty welcomes “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”
Philip Roth’s recurring fictional alter ego who narrates novels like American Pastoral and The Human Stain Nathan Zuckerman
The Roth novel about "The Swede" Levov, whose daughter becomes a radical bomber during the Vietnam War American Pastoral
The Roth novel consisting of a monologue by Alexander Portnoy to his psychoanalyst, Dr. Spielvogel Portnoy’s Complaint
The 2004 Philip Roth alternative history novel in which Charles Lindbergh becomes president and antisemitism rises The Plot Against America
The Polish-born author who wrote in Yiddish and created the character "Gimpel the Fool" Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Singer story about a woman who disguises herself as a boy to study at a yeshiva Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy
The author of The Natural, featuring baseball player Roy Hobbs and his bat "Wonderboy" Bernard Malamud
The Malamud novel based on the trial of Menahem Mendel Beilis, featuring the falsely accused handyman Yakov Bok The Fixer
The rabbi and author of The Chosen, which follows the friendship of Danny Saunders and Reuven Malter Chaim Potok
The Potok novel about an artist who paints the "Brooklyn Crucifixion," distressing his Hasidic family My Name is Asher Lev
The playwright of Death of a Salesman and The Crucible Arthur Miller
The Arthur Miller play about Joe Keller, who sells faulty airplane parts during World War II All My Sons
The Miller play set in the mind of the protagonist Quentin, inspired by the author's marriage to Marilyn Monroe After the Fall
The Jewish-American playwright from New York City best known for The Odd Couple and the "Eugene trilogy" Neil Simon
The 1965 play featuring the conflict between the lazy Oscar Madison and his neat roommate Felix Ungar The Odd Couple
The sisters who go on a disastrous double date with Oscar and Felix in The Odd Couple The Pigeon sisters (Cecily and Gwendolyn)
The 1991 Pulitzer Prize-winning play in which Arty and Jay Kurnitz live with their Aunt Bella and grandmother Lost in Yonkers
The name of the protagonist in Simon’s semi-autobiographical trilogy Eugene Jerome
The first play in the Eugene trilogy, chronicling the protagonist's childhood in New York Brighton Beach Memoirs
The play in the Eugene trilogy that follows the protagonist through his basic training during World War II Biloxi Blues
The final play in the Eugene trilogy, focused on the protagonist's early career in comedy Broadway Bound
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