1920's Education | "Children of Loneliness"

Short story

By: Anzia Yezierska

Date: 1923

Source: Yezierska, Anzia. "Children of Loneliness." Reprinted in How I Found America: Collected Stories of Anzia Yezierska. New York: Persea Books, 224–228.

About the Author: Anzia Yezierska (18??–1970) was a Polish-Jewish immigrant who came to the United States when she was about ten years old. She graduated from Columbia University in 1904 and during the 1920s was a successful and acclaimed author writing mainly of the immigrant experience in America. One of her books, Hungry Hearts, was made into a silent film in 1922. Although she was largely ignored by publishers after the 1920s, academic interest in her life and work, especially among feminist scholars, has increased in recent years.

Introduction

Anzia Yezierska wrote about the lives of immigrants in America. Her work grew out of her own...