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Anzia Yezierska was born in Plinsk, a city in what was the Russian-controlled part of Poland, and immigrated to the United States with her family in 1901. Her father, a Talmudic scholar, did not provide much for his family, and from 1900-1903 Yezierska was forced to work as a seamstress in a sweatshop and in a factory on the lower East Side of New York City, as well as serving as a cook and maid for a wealthy family. She struggled to receive an education, studying domestic science at Columbia University, which she began teaching in an elementary school in 1908. In 1915, she published her first short story, and her writing career was launched. By 1916, however, her second marriage had ended, and she eventually left their daughter to be raised by her second husband. Yezierska's first collection of short fiction, Hungry Hearts, appeared in 1920, followed by a novel, Salome of the Tenements (1923), and a second collection of short fiction, Children of Loneliness (1923). Her second novel, Bread Givers, appeared in 1925, followed by the novels Arrogant Beggar (1927), and All I Could Never Be (1932). Many of her stories and novels are seen as autobiographical, focusing on the social issues of poverty, the difficulties of being an uneducated immigrant woman, and the problems caused by an extremely patriarchal father. Her fictionalized autobiography, Red Ribbon on a White Horse, was published in 1950. Author Links
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