Anzia Yezierska

Anzia Yezierska ( born October 29, 1880 in Płońsk, Poland, † 21 November 1970 at Ontario, California ) was a Polish-born American author of novels.

Life

Originally from a poor Polish-Jewish family Yezierska was after their immigration worked as a seamstress in a garment factory and as a cook at the Waldorf -Astoria in the United States. After the divorce of her two husbands, she was a friend of 1917-1918 with the philosopher and educator John Dewey. Later she studied with a scholarship at Columbia University and at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, a company founded in 1884 private acting school in New York City.

Your literary debut in 1920 with Hungry Hearts, a collection of short stories that were filmed in 1922 by the Goldwyn Picture Corporation, directed by E. Mason Hopper.

After a further collection of partially autobiographical about life in New York's Lower East Side, short stories, entitled Children of Loneliness: Stories of Immigrant Life in America ( 1923), she published the novels Salome of the Tenements (1923 ), Bread Givers ( 1925), the Theodore Dreiser novel Jennie Gerhardt of (1911 ) was influenced, and Arrogant Beggar (1927 ). 1950 published her memoirs under the title Red Ribbon on a White Horse (1950).

Salome of the Tenements Also in 1925 filmed by Sidney Olcott Jetta with Goudal.

After the absence of other successful books, she took during the 1930s on the Federal Writers ' Project in part, a job creation measure of the U.S. government during the New Deal, were brought to the unemployed intellectuals for the public again on the payroll.

Yezierska was the aunt of journalist Cecilia Ager and great-aunt of their daughter, the journalist and columnist Shana Alexander.

Works in German translation

• My father, my enemy. ( Bread Givers ) from the English by Maria Castro. Dvorah -Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1993. ISBN 3-927926-07-8.