Eva Stern

Eva Stern was an American author best known for The Little Immigrant; A True Story, a privately printed book published in 1921. The work follows a young immigrant girl’s journey across the Atlantic and her adjustment to life in the United States, blending family history with the social changes of the nineteenth century.

The book’s introduction explains that Stern drew on the experiences of her parents and disguised many of the real names. It also identifies her as Eva Sterne, wife of Leopold Stern, and notes that her great-grandson Robert Stern later helped bring the work to a wider audience through its Project Gutenberg edition.

Stern died in 1927. Few biographical details about her are readily documented, but her surviving book offers a vivid, personal window into immigration, memory, and family life.