Elizabeth Herzog

Elizabeth Herzog was born in Chicago to a long-established family of German heritage. In 1952, she cowrote the widely praised book Life Is with People with ethnologist Mark Zborowski, an evocative recreation of the shtetl, constructed through interviews with former residents. In the 1960s, while working as the chief of child life research in the Children’s Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Herzog published several influential studies challenging prevailing stereotypes about poverty, race, and family life.