Fannie Hurst was born in St. Louis, October 19, 1889.
She has served as a saleswoman and as a waitress and
crossed the Atlantic in the steerage to get material
for her short stories of the life of the working-woman,
selections of which have been published with the titles
_Just Around the Corner_ and _Every Soul Hath Its
Song_.
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