The Jewish Writer by Jill Krementz

The noted photojournalist, Jill Krementz draws on her archive of photographs of the most important Jewish writers of the twentieth century to present an album of ninety pictures accompanied by an assessment of their significance.

The Jews have been called "the people of the book" for their love of reading and writing.This 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.

Hardcover book 1998