Anzia Yezierska

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Anzia Yezierska
Sketch of Anzia Yezierska 1921
Born	(1880-10-29)29 October 1880 Mały Płock, Vistula Land, Russian Empire
Died	20 November 1970(1970-11-20) (aged 90) Ontario, California, United States
Occupation	Writer novelist essayist
Nationality	American
Genre	fiction; non-fiction

Anzia Yezierska (October 29, 1880 – November 20, 1970) was a Jewish-American novelist born in Mały Płock, Poland, which was then part of the Russian Empire. She emigrated as a child with her parents to the United States and lived in the immigrant neighborhood of the Lower East Side of Manhattan.