ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER [mid-to-late 1970s] Set of 2 photos

[New York: ca. mid- to-late 1970s]. Two vintage original black-and-white photos, both fine:

• 8 x 10″ (20 x 25 cm) double weight photo, stamp on verso of photographer Iris Schneider, dated 1978. Along with a 10/13/78 holograph letter from Schneider to a person named Fred asking him to use the photo in a piece he might write about Singer. It was in fact announced in October 1978 that Singer was receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature.

• 7 x 4 7/8″ (18 x 12.5 cm) photo, stamp on back of photographer Rhoda Nathans.

Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-born Jewish novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, essayist, and translator in the United States. Some of his works were adapted for the theater. He wrote and published first in Yiddish and later translated his own works into English with the help of editors and collaborators. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. A leading figure in the Yiddish literary movement, he was awarded two U.S. National Book Awards, one in Children’s Literature for his memoir A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw (1970) and one in Fiction for his collection A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories (1974). (Wikipedia)