author
Ezra S. Brudno
1877–1936
An immigrant writer with a sharp eye for hardship and hope, he turned his early life into vivid stories about leaving Eastern Europe and finding a place in America. His work is especially remembered for blending personal experience with fiction in a direct, human way.
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The Sublime Jester
by Ezra S. Brudno
About the author
Born in 1877 in what was then the Russian Empire, Ezra S. Brudno came to the United States as a young man and built a life in Cleveland. Reliable sources agree that he became both a lawyer and a writer, and that his background as a Jewish immigrant strongly shaped his books.
He is best known for The Fugitive (1904), a semi-autobiographical work about a wanderer searching for home, and he published other fiction in the years that followed. Reference sources describe him as one of the notable Jewish literary voices in Cleveland in the early 20th century, with writing that drew on migration, identity, and the pressures of starting over in a new country.
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