THE JEWISH WRITER

New York: Henry Holt, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket. 4to. The Jews have been called "The People of the Book" for their love of reading and writing. This collectio, spanning three decades, brings together in photographs and text the man and varied Jewish voices; novelists, playwrights, poets, essayists, and scholars, that have enriched twentieth-century literature. Photographs by Jill Krementz. Subjects include; Saul Bellow, Cynthia Ozick, S. J. Perelman, Francine Prose, Pearl Abraham, James McBride, Chaim Potok, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Rebecca Goldstein, Erica Jong, Gerald Stern, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Joseph Skibell, Herman Wouk, Grace Paley, Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Philip Roth, Tillie Olsen, Alfred Kazin, Louis Begley, Philip Rahv and Alan Lelchuk, Bernard Malamud, Joan Nathan, Aryeh Lelv Stollman, Bruce Jay Friedman, Ricky Jay, Amos Oz, Wendy Wasserstein, Maurice Sendak, David I. Kertzer, Elie Wiesel, Stanley Kunitz, Phillip Lopate, Cheryl Pearl Sucher, Aharn Applefeld, Toy Kushner, Irving Howe, Norman Podhoretz and Midge Decter, Jill Bialosky, Hannah Arendt, Daniel Fuchs, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Anne Roiphe, E. L. Doctorow, Meyer Levin, Robert Pinsky, Chava Rosenfarb, Sir Isaiah Berlin, Joseph Heller, Belva Plain, Arthur Miller, Irwin Shaw, Daphne Merkin, Jonathan Rosen, Melvin Jules Bukiet, Rosellen Brown, Max Apple, Calvin Trillin, Jerzy Kosinski, Joseph Machlis, Dani Shapiro, David Mamet, E. M. Broner, Morman Manea, Ben Katchor, Johanna Kaplan, A. B. Yehoshua, Ruth R Wisse, Budd Schulberg, Eli N. Evens, Yehuda Amichai, Stanley Elkin, and Allegra Goodman. 152 pages.