Leo Rosten

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Leo Calvin Rosten (April 11, 1908–February 19, 1997) was an American 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, under the pseudonym Leonard Q. Ross).

He is also well-known for his encyclopedic volume The Joys of Yiddish, a guide to the Yiddish language and to Jewish culture (as well as a source for anecdotes and Jewish humour).

Rosten was a successful screenwriter. He wrote the story for The Dark Corner a film noir starring Mark Stevens and Lured the Douglas Sirk-directed period drama with Lucille Ball. Template:WikiquoteTemplate:Academic-bio-stub ja:レオ・ロステン