Tillie Olsen
Activist and author Tillie Olsen is best known for her prize-winning fiction Tell Me a Riddle and Yonnondio: From the Thirties. She has taught at MIT, Stanford, and Amherst. Olsen is an recipient of an Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Literature from the American Academy and the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
Activist and author Tillie Olsen is best known for her prize-winning fiction Tell Me a Riddle and Yonnondio: From the Thirties. She has taught at MIT, Stanford, and Amherst. Olsen is an recipient of an Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Literature from the American Academy and the National Institute of Arts and Letters. See less
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Tillie Olsen book reviews
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Tell Me a Riddle
A Life of Sufficiency
by rejoyce, Aug 24, 2007
Set during "the pre-relief, pre-WPA world of the Depression," Tillie Olsen's story, "I Stand Here Ironing," turns on a working class single mother's refusal to discuss with a social worker her 19 ... Read More