Who began their career earlier, Jonathan Lethem or George S. Kaufman?
Jonathan Lethem Jonathan Allen Lethem (LEE-thum, born February 19, 1964) is an American novelist, essayist and short story writer. His first novel, "Gun, with Occasional Music", a genre work that mixed elements of science fiction and detective fiction, was published in 1994. It was followed by three more science fiction novels.
David Kaufmann David Kaufmann (7 June 1852 – 6 July 1899) (Hebrew: דוד קויפמן) was a Jewish-Austrian scholar born at Kojetín, Moravia (now in the Czech Republic). From 1861 to 1867 he attended the gymnasium at Kroměříž, Moravia, where he studied the Bible and Talmud with Jacob Brüll, rabbi of Kojetín, and with the latter's son Nehemiah.