Isaac Rosenfeld

Isaac Rosenfeld (March 10, 1918 - July 14, 1956 and many articles for The Nation, Partisan Review, and The New Republic. Some of those articles were posthumously published in a volume titled An Age of Enormity, and his short stories were later published as Alpha and Omega.

Background Many of Rosenfeld's short stories revolve around family, and were to some extent inspired by his own Chicago family: his bombastic father, his mother Miriam who died young, his sister, his unmarried aunts. He and his wife Vasiliki had two children, George and Eleni, the latter of which later became a Buddhist nun. He grew up a few blocks from Saul Bellow,

He moved in 1941 from Chicago to New York to study philosophy at New York University, dropping out to write fiction after about a year. His friends regarded him initially, according to Irving Howe, as the "golden boy" of the New York literary elite,