Anzia Yezierska (1882-1970) was born in Poland and came to the Lower East Side of New York with her family in 1890 when she was nine years old. By the 1920s she had risen out of poverty and become a successful writer of stories, autobiographical novels and one autobiography, Red Ribbon on a White Horse. Her novel Bread Givers is considered a classic of Jewish American fiction and her other works include How I Found America: Collected Stories and The Open Cage.
