Mary Antin (1881–1949)
Auteur de The Promised Land
Œuvres de Mary Antin
From Plotzk to Boston: A Young Girl's Journey from Russia to the Promised Land (1899) 27 exemplaires
Why I Am a Pagan 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Jewish caravan : great stories of twenty-five centuries (1935) — Contributeur, quelques éditions — 129 exemplaires
Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century American Women Writers (1994) — Contributeur — 121 exemplaires
America and I: Short Stories by American Jewish Women Writers (1990) — Contributeur — 118 exemplaires
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- Autres noms
- Antin, Maryashe (birth)
- Date de naissance
- 1881-06-13
- Date de décès
- 1949-05-15
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu du décès
- Suffern, New York, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Polotsk, Belarus
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
New York, New York, USA - Études
- Teachers College of Columbia University
Barnard College
Boston Latin School - Professions
- activist (immigration rights)
autobiographer
public lecturer
poet - Relations
- Grabau, Amadeus W. (husband)
- Courte biographie
- Maryashe Antin was born to a Jewish family in Polotsk (then Russia). She studied with private tutors before the whole family emigrated to the USA in 1894, settling in Boston. There her name was shortened to Mary. Helped by her teachers, Mary Antin completed grammar school in four years. She began to fulfill her literary ambitions by publishing some poems in Boston newspapers, which made her a local celebrity and a symbol of immigrant achievement. She also published From Plotzk to Boston (1899), a collection of her letters, which earned enough to pay for her education at Girls’ Latin School (now Boston Latin Academy). In 1901, she married Amadeus William Grabau, a geologist, with whom she had a son, and moved to New York City. Mary attended Barnard College and Teachers College of Columbia University. At age 30, she wrote a bestselling autobiography, The Promised Land (1912) and went on a national lecturer tour. After the USA entered World War I, she lectured in support of the Allied cause, but her husband voiced his pro-German sympathies, causing a serious rift in their marriage. Mary Antin became ill and retired from public life. By 1919, the couple had separated, and the following year, Grabau left the USA for China. Mary Antin returned to Massachusetts, where she worked part-time as a social worker.
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- Œuvres
- 6
- Aussi par
- 6
- Membres
- 312
- Popularité
- #75,595
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 8
- ISBN
- 45