Winner of the 1974 National Book Awards for Fiction, A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories is Singer's sixth collection published in English. In such classics as "A Day in Coney Island," "The Cabalist of East Broadway," "The Briefcase," and "The Beard"—made into an experimental film by Bruce Davidson—Singer's stories break out of their old world mould as his existential perspective on modern life increasingly reflect the postwar condition in locales from the United States to South America, Europe, and the Middle East.

"Isaac Bashevis Singer is an extraordinary writer. . . . Though necessarily secularized, he still has access to the mystical Jewish theology in which he was brought up by the rabbis on rabbis who were his father, grandfathers, uncles. So the world to Isaac Bashevis Singer still represents the mind of God." — Alfred Kazin, New York Times Book Review