Louise Levitas Henriksen (1912–1997)

Louise Levitas Henriksen was born in Long Beach, California, the daughter of the Jewish immigrant novelist and early feminist Anzia Yezierska and Arnold Levitas, a printer and typography instructor. Louise also pursued a literary career, becoming a freelance magazine and newspaper journalist. She achieved fame in 1988 with the publication of an acclaimed biography of her mother, Anzia Yezierska: A Writer's Life. In the 1950s, Louise married topologist Mel Henriksen, whom she met while working as a publicist.