Anzia Yezierska: A Writer's Life

Louise Levitas Henriksen. Rutgers University Press, $17 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-8135-1664-6

The critically praised Yiddish writer who preferred the simplicity of the Lower East Side to the flashy life made possible by her financial success is here resurrected by her only daughter. ``The use of her letters is redundant, nonetheless the biography effects an emotional rapport with this unusual woman of words,'' commented PW. Photos. (Feb.)

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