Isaac Bashevis Singer was born in Radzymin, Poland, in 1904. He was the son and grandson of rabbis and lived in the Jewish quarter of Warsaw until 1935, when he emigrated to the United States. His work, however, always had Poland as its horizon: the most frequently used theme in Singer's novels and stories is, precisely, life in that country in different historical periods, with particular attention to the daily life of communities Jewish. He received the National Book Award in 1974 and the Nobel Prize in 1978. He died in Florida, United States, in 1991. His works include the novels Satan in Goray (1935), The Moskat Family (1950), Jampol's House (1967 ) and The heirs (1969), In my father's patio (1966); and the storybooks Gimpel the Fool (1957) and A Pleasant Day: Tales of a Boy Raised in Warsaw (1973).