The National Institute of Arts and Letters, which limits its membership to 250 persons of “outstanding creative achievement” named three Jewish authors yesterday in electing 13 new members.
They were Alfred Kazin, critic and writer; Howard Nemerov, award-winning poet, critic and novelist; and Isaac Bashevis Singer, fiction writer in Yiddish whose work in English translation has attracted widespread praise in this country. The three were half of the six members chosen for the Department of Literature. There are now 240 members in the Institute.
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