Bronx Primitive

memoir by Simon

Also known as: “Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood”

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In full:: Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood

Bronx Primitive, memoir by Kate Simon, published in 1982. It evokes working-class Jewish immigrant life in the Bronx during the early 20th century. A Wider World: Portraits in an Adolescence (1986) and Etchings in an Hourglass (1990) were later installments in Simon’s autobiography.

This article was most recently revised and updated by Kathleen Kuiper.