Henry Harland

Comedies and Errors Henry Harland

Before writing this more literary work set in Italy among the English expatriots, Henry Harland (1861-1905) wrote far more sensational novels set in the immigrant Jewish neighborhoods of New York City under the pen name "Sidney Luska." Born a Protestant in Connecticut, "Luska" claimed to be from St. Petersburg and ironically was called "the first Jewish-American novelist."