21. NPR: Tillie Olsen's Tender Portrait Of A Marriage The title novella in tillie olsen s Tell Me a Riddle, says Scott Turow, achieves the shocking brevity and power of the best poems. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6407142

22. Untold Stories At Faux Real I read a thoughtful obituary on Slate today about the passing of tillie olsen — writer, feminist, and mother — whose real story lies in what she didn’t http://fauxrealtho.com/2007/01/09/untold-stories/

Faux Real Blog About Fare Thee Well, Professor Danger ... Untold Stories Published January 9th, 2007 in Bloggery Obligation and Stories I read a thoughtful obituary on Slate today about the passing of Tillie Olsen Olsen After I finished the obituary, I found several other pieces, these two in particular, that cut to the heart of what Olsen represents to many of us who admire her, and like Lorraine this quote knocked the wind out of me Feed for this Entry Trackback Address ratan Jan 10th, 2007 at 2:50 am publius Jan 10th, 2007 at 8:22 am gennimcmahon Jan 10th, 2007 at 11:31 am Anitsirc Jan 10th, 2007 at 1:11 pm Then at some point, abruptly, she dropped from college (she was studying engineering, of all things), and ran away with some guy. The details were fuzzy from then on, but all I know for certain is that she basically gave up her artistic career, and, years later, she eventually married a German guy, settled in some small German town and promptly had three kids. ks Jan 10th, 2007 at 3:40 pm B. Dagger Lee Jan 10th, 2007 at 6:41 pm Blogging is real writing; it is also practice writing for the writing you really want to do. yrs

23. JWA - We Remember - Tillie Olsen (1913 - 2007) tillie olsen s handwriting was so tiny you almost needed a magnifying glass to read her patchwork of words, yet her influence on my life was enormous. http://jwa.org/discover/weremember/olsen/

Home About Blog Donate ... Contact "The more our voices are heard in song, the more we become our lyrics, our prayers, and our convictions." We Remember Archive Shirley Kramer Broner Andrea Bronfman ... Ellen Willis Tillie Olsen Feminist Author Tillie Olsen Photo courtesy of Tillie Olsen Remembering Tillie Olsen by Rachel Lyon In a rather small hall, the windows lashed with rain, Tillie read Tell Me a Riddle out loud to 600 people. We were all in tears, including Tillie. For me, that day was life-changing. My then partner and I sat in silence, dreaming dreams. I spent the next five years making Tell Me a Riddle Tell Me a Riddle 's protagonists. A daughter of immigrants and a working mother starved for time to write, Tillie Olsen drew from her personal experiences to create a small but influential body of work. Her first published book, Tell Me a Riddle (1961), which went to print when Tillie was 50, contained a short story, "I Stand Here Ironing," in which the narrator painfully recounts her difficult relationship with her daughter and the frustrations of motherhood and poverty. At the time of the book's publication Tillie was applauded by critics as a short story writer of immense talent. Tillie's working class roots and leftist political involvement were never far from her life and work. Her popularity within the rising women's movement was in part due to the importance of bringing a working class perspective to a movement that struggled with privileged roots and limited reach.

24. Tillie Olsen Criticism (Vol. 114) tillie olsen 1913–. American short story writer, novelist, and essayist. The following entry presents an overview of olsen s career through 1998. http://www.enotes.com/contemporary-literary-criticism/olsen-tillie

utmSetVar('lit_all'); Tillie Olsen Criticism and Essays Welcome, guest! Login Join eNotes Entire Site Literature Science History Business Soc. Sciences Health Arts College Journals Literature Science History Business ... Z Search All Criticism: Printable Version Download PDF Cite this Page Tillie Olsen 1913– American short story writer, novelist, and essayist. The following entry presents an overview of Olsen's career through 1998. For further information on her life and works, see CLC , Volumes 4 and 13. INTRODUCTION Olsen's work—which focuses on the plight of the poor, the powerless, and women—has earned her almost universal praise. Although she has published relatively little throughout her career, her short stories and novel are of the highest quality. Her fiction and her essays have placed her in a role as a chronicler of the working class as well as a leading feminist writer. Biographical Information Olsen was born on January 14, 1913 (some sources say 1912) in Omaha, Nebraska. Her Jewish parents had been political activists in Russia and immigrated to the United States after the failed 1905 revolution. While a teenager, Olsen read Rebecca Harding Davis's Life in the Iron Mills and was so moved by the description of the working class that she vowed to become a writer. After high school, Olsen took a variety of jobs to supplement her family's income and became active in leftist politics, joining the Young People's Socialist League and the Young Communist League. While working in Kansas City, Olsen was arrested in 1931 for encouraging packinghouse workers to unionize. While in prison, Olsen developed pleurisy and incipient tuberculosis. Upon her release, she moved to Minnesota to recover. There she began her first novel

25. Tillie Olsen; Her Fiction Explored Fraying Seams Of Blue-collar Life - The Bosto WASHINGTON tillie olsen, a chronicler of the working class whose few published works included some of the most critically acclaimed stories in modern http://www.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2007/01/05/tillie_olsen_her

Today's Globe Local Opinion Magazine ... Obituaries Tillie Olsen; her fiction explored fraying seams of blue-collar life Tillie Olsen published "Tell Me a Riddle" when she was 49. (associated press file/2001) January 5, 2007 WASHINGTON Tillie Olsen, a chronicler of the working class whose few published works included some of the most critically acclaimed stories in modern American literature, died Monday of complications of Alzheimer's disease at Kaiser Hospital in Oakland, Calif. She was 94 and lived in Berkeley, Calif. Ms. Olsen was nearly 50 years old when her first book, the short story collection "Tell Me a Riddle," was published in 1961. She had been writing for years, but sporadic Depression-era jobs, her political activism, and demands of motherhood took precedence. She wrote at night after her children were asleep or while riding a bus to work, as a waitress, a capper of mayonnaise jars, a Kelly Girl temp, among many other jobs. In 1934, when an excerpt of her novel-in-progress about the Depression was published in Partisan Review, she listed in an author's note additional jobs: tie presser, hack writer, model, housemaid, ice cream packer, book clerk. The novel, "Yonnondio: From the Thirties," was published nearly four decades after the Partisan Review excerpt, and only after bits and pieces of it were discovered among old papers. "Tell Me a Riddle" and "Yonnondio" (1973) were her only published works of fiction. Both met with critical acclaim, as did "Silences" (1978), a memoir of her years as a struggling writer and an exploration of the forces that silence "those whose working hours are all struggle for existence; the barely educated; the illiterate; women."

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27. Tillie Olsen Documentary Screens Tonight In Oakland At LesbianDad Documentary filmmaker Annie Hershey’s longawaited film about the life and work of writer-activist tillie olsen will be making its Bay Area debut tonight, http://lesbiandad.net/2008/01/14/tillie-olsen-documentary-screens-tonight-in-oak

LesbianDad notes from the crossroads of mother and father Blog About Blog archives Further reading ... Tillie Olsen documentary screens tonight in Oakland Published January 14th, 2008 in Miscellaney Go hetero ally go! San Francisco Chronicle photo of filmmaker Ann Hershey by Liz Hafalia A Heart in Action not The San Francisco Chronicle did a nice piece on the documentary last week. on Flickr. Feed for this Entry Trackback Address NellyFace Jan 15th, 2008 at cardamom Jan 15th, 2008 at Posting Your Comment Please Wait Leave a Reply You must log in to post a comment. Search The text and images on LesbianDad are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License The blogular container into which they're poured is a WordPress 2.0.2 K2Beta Two r167 thingy, shaped by by Michael and Chris The photographs are stashed over at Flickr , and are visible there to LesbianDad's All these pages are hosted on the web by woman-owned, green-powered Acorn Host questions about this site can be directed to [info AT lesbiandad DOT net] site map RSS Entries and RSS Comments

28. Tillie Olsen Writer Tell Me a Riddle. Visit IMDb for Photos, Filmography, Discussions, Bio, News, Awards, Agent, Fan Sites. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0647819/

Now Playing Movie/TV News My Movies DVD New Releases ... search All Titles TV Episodes My Movies Names Companies Keywords Characters Quotes Bios Plots more tips SHOP TILLIE OLSEN DVD VHS CD IMDb Tillie Olsen Quicklinks categorized by type by year by ratings by votes by TV series titles for sale by genre by keyword power search credited with tv schedule biography other works publicity contact miscellaneous Top Links biography by votes awards news articles ... message board Filmographies categorized by type by year by ratings ... tv schedule Biographical biography other works publicity contact ... message board External Links official sites miscellaneous photographs sound clips ... video clips Tillie Olsen advertisement photos board add contact details Photos Add photo(s) and resume with IMDb Resume Services Overview Date of Birth: 14 January Omaha, Nebraska, USA more Date of Death: 1 January , Oakland, California, USA (Alzheimer's disease) more Trivia: Children with Jack Olsen: Julie, Kathie, Laurie. Child from a previous... more Filmography Jump to filmography as: Writer Self Writer: I Stand Here Ironing (2005) (short story) ... aka Tillie Olsen: I Stand Here Ironing (USA: video title) Tell Me a Riddle (1980) (story) Self: First Sight: An Introduction to Literature TV episode .... Herself

29. Tillie Olsen Biography tillie olsen by Abigail Martin, Boise, Idaho, Boise State University, 1984; tillie olsen and a Feminist Spiritual Vision by Elaine Neil Orr, Jackson, http://biography.jrank.org/pages/4643/Olsen-Tillie.html

Other Free Encyclopedias Brief Biographies Contemporary Novelists Vol 13 Tillie Olsen Biography Find all books written by Tillie Olsen on Amazon.com Nationality: American. Born: Tillie Lerner, Omaha, Nebraska, 1912 or 1913. Education: Some high school. Career: Awards: P UBLICATIONS Novel Yonnondio: From the Thirties. New York, Delacorte Press, 1974;London, Faber, 1975. Short Stories Tell Me a Riddle: A Collection. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1961;London, Faber, 1964. Dream Vision. New York, Mother to Daughter, Daughter to Mother, n.d. Uncollected Short Story The Best American Short Stories 1971 , edited byMartha Foley and David Burnett. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1971. Other Silences. New York, Delacorte Press, 1978; London, Virago Press, 1980. Mothers and Daughters: That Special Quality: An Exploration in Photographs , with Julie Olsen-Edwards and Estelle Jussim. New York, Aperture, 1987. Afterword, Life in the Iron Mills. Old Westbury, New York, FeministPress, 1972. The Word Made Flesh. Iowa City, Iowa Humanities Council, 1984. Editor

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31. Tillie Olsen « A Practical Policy tillie olsen A Heart in Action documentary. Jesse Hamlin. In the film, Alice Walker credits olsen with “changing the landscape of feminist writing and http://apragmaticpolicy.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/tillie-olsen-2/

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32. Former Stegner Fellow Tillie Olsen, Muse To Many Women Writers, Dead At 94 tillie olsen, left, marching in protest with other opponents of apartheid in support of full divestment in South Africa by the University of California. http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2007/january10/olsen-011007.html

Skip to content Home News By Topic Business and Law ... How to subscribe Search Stanford Report, January 10, 2007 Former Stegner Fellow Tillie Olsen, muse to many women writers, dead at 94 BY BARBARA PALMER Julie Olsen Edwards Tillie Olsen, left, marching in protest with other opponents of apartheid in support of full divestment in South Africa by the University of California. Tillie Olsen Writer and activist Tillie Olsen, who mined her own working-class background to create a handful of lyrical, searing short stories on themes of race, class and gender and broke new critical ground with a nonfiction work, Silences , died Jan. 1 in an Oakland hospital. Olsen, 94, had suffered from Alzheimer's disease. Author of the widely anthologized stories Tell Me a Riddle and I Stand Here Ironing Critics in both the academic and mainstream press praise the technical brilliance and emotional power of the four short stories collected in the volume Tell Me a Riddle , published in 1961. And the 1978 Silences , which describes the political, cultural and personal circumstances that hinder creative expression and questions why some voices, including those of women, historically had been silenced or become lost, is regarded as a foundational work in the fields of women's studies and feminist criticism. Listening to Silences , published in 1994. Olsen spearheaded the movement to recover and value writers who were neglected or devalued in the past due in large part to their class, gender or race, Fishkin said.

33. Fernham: Tillie Olsen, RIP tillie olsen died earlier this week (via RSB). The pioneering leftist feminist writer was just weeks shy of her 95th birthday. http://fernham.blogspot.com/2007/01/tillie-olsen-rip.html

@import url("http://www.blogger.com/css/blog_controls.css"); @import url("http://www.blogger.com/dyn-css/authorization.css?targetBlogID=10246709"); Fernham Books, food, friends, and Virginia Woolf. "I spare you the twists and turns of my cogitations, for no conclusion was found on the road to Headingly, and I ask you to suppose that I soon found out my mistake about the turning and retraced my steps to Fernham."Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own Thursday, January 04, 2007 Tillie Olsen, RIP Tillie Olsen died earlier this week ( via RSB ). The pioneering leftist feminist writer was just weeks shy of her 95th birthday. I wanted to commemorate her death by re-reading her great short story “I Stand Here Ironing,” but it’s in the office and all I can find on-line are dozens of disheartening links to term papers for purchase. More interestingly, there’s a teaching wiki up that may be of interest to some. My mother devoured Tell Me a Riddle when I was a girl and I remember her raving about it. I liked the title, but when she told me that one of the great stories was called “I Stand Here Ironing,” and consisted of a woman ironing and talking and thinking about her daughter, I resisted. The very idea felt claustrophobic to me. My mother ironed. She talked about me. Tillie Olsen, from Nebraska with a Scandinavian name (a married name—she was the daughter of Russian Jews), was too close to home. What could I learn from her? I went on to teach the story several times. It's terrific and devastating. The writing is deceptive: spare and realistic as a great poem by Frost or William Carlos Williams with uncanny moments of mother-speak that bring you right into the intense world of love and worry that is motherhood.

34. NLAQ Tillie Olsen Left A Lasting Impression “tillie olsen, whose short stories, books and essays lent a heartfelt voice to the struggles of women and workingclass people, died on Monday in Oakland http://www.nebraskalibraries.org/nlaquarterly/2007/1/2007-1-Pollak2.htm

35. Sinister Girl: Tillie Olsen Memorial... wow! tillie olsen s granddaughter left a comment on my other post so obviously i must oblige her request and post this information for all to see http://msjared.blogspot.com/2007/01/tillie-olsen-memorial.html

@import url("http://www.blogger.com/css/blog_controls.css"); @import url("http://www.blogger.com/dyn-css/authorization.css?targetBlogID=13498224"); sinister girl Monday, January 15, 2007 tillie olsen memorial... wow! tillie olsen's granddaughter left a comment on my other post so obviously i must oblige her request and post this information for all to see: Thank you for this! Tillie Olsen's family would like to let people in the San Francisco Bay Area know about her memorial celebration. Please circulate this information widely the family is trying to get this information out to all those who might be interested. Tillie Lerner Olsen Author, Feminist, Activist January 14, 1912 - January 1, 2007 Join family, friends, and readers for a Memorial Celebration of Tillie Olsen's Life Saturday, February 17, 2007 First Congregational Church of Oakland 2501 Harrison Street (corner of 25th and Harrison) Oakland, CA 1:00 celebration followed by reception. Parking on site. The church is 8 blocks from the 19th Street BART Station. Please share this information with others you know who cared about and were affected by Tillie's writing, teaching, speaking, or friendship.

36. National Yiddish Book Center - Tell Me A Riddle By Tillie Olsen In her nonfiction book Silences, tillie olsen once and for all dispensed with the image of the woman writer scribbling great prose at the kitchen table http://yiddishbookcenter.org/story.php?n=10366

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38. Pacifica.org - Tillie Olsen Remembered tillie olsen, feminist activist and writer died this week at age 94. This segment of an interview with olsen in 1981 courtesy of The Pacifica Radio Archives http://www.pacifica.org/program-guide/op,segment-page/segment_id,122/

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40. Tillie Olsen Quotes 6 quotes and quotations by tillie olsen. tillie olsen I know that I haven t powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates. http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/tillie_olsen.html

Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog - it's EASY! Home Quote Topics Quote Keywords ... Author Nationalities Authors: A B C D ... Z Web brainyquote.com Tillie Olsen Quotes Type: Novelist Quotes Category: American Novelist Quotes Date of Birth: January 14 Date of Death: January 1 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Tillie Olsen Related Authors: Ernest Hemingway Richard Bach Gore Vidal Anne Rice ... Will Thomas And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total? Tillie Olsen I know that I haven't powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates. Tillie Olsen The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked. Tillie Olsen There are worse words than cuss words, there are words that hurt. Tillie Olsen Time granted does not necessarily coincide with time that can be most fully used. Tillie Olsen Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades. Tillie Olsen Quotes RSS Feeds About Us Inquire Privacy Terms

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