My Mother and I

Follows a young girl whose family recently emigrated from a “small Russian Polish town” to Pittsburgh. The protagonist makes neighborhood friends and becomes the only girl in her grade school class to go on to Pittsburgh Central High School. After graduation, she relocates to New York City.

Elizabeth Gertrude "E. G." Stern (1889—1954), educated at the University of Pittsburgh, was an author, journalist, and essayist. She also wrote under the pen names Leah Morton, Eleanor Morton, and E. G. Stern.