Leo Calvin Rosten (April 11, 1908-February 19, 1997) was born on 11 April 1908 in Lodz, Russian Empire (now Poland) and died on 19 February 1997 in New York. He was a teacher, academic and humorist best remembered for his stories about the night-school "prodigy" Hyman Kaplan (first published in "The New Yorker" in the 1930s, and later reprinted in two volumes-"The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N" and "The Return of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N", … Wikipedia
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Leo Rosten. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Rosten
Leo Rosten was born in Poland and raised and educated in the U.S. His first book, 1937's The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N , which grew out of short stories he had published in the New Yorker magazine, affectionately recounts the struggles of people www.speakingofstories.org/Author%20Bios/leo_rosten.htm