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    Tillie Lerner Olsen (January 14, 1912 – January 1, 2007) was an American writer who was associated with the political turmoil of the 1930s and the first...
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  • "I Stand Here Ironing" is a short story by Tillie Olsen that first appeared in Pacific Spectator and Stanford Short Stories in 1956 under the title "Help...
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  • Yonnondio: From the Thirties is a novel by American author Tillie Olsen which was published in 1974 but written in the 1930s. The novel details the lives...
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  • Tell Me a Riddle is a collection of short fiction by Tillie Olsen first published by J. B. Lippincott & Co. in 1961. The volume is composed of three short...
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  • Tillie Olsen: A Heart in Action is a 2007 documentary film directed and produced by Ann Hershey on the life and literary influence of Tillie Olsen, the...
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  • Olsen (born 1961), American actress best known as Cindy Brady on The Brady Bunch Tava Olsen, New Zealand professor in supply chain management Tillie Olsen...
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    writer Tillie Olsen. As an adviser for the Feminist Press in the 1970s, she came across Life in the Iron Mills and suggested it for republication. Olsen helped...
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  • 1984) 1911 – Anatoly Rybakov, Russian-American author (d. 1998) 1912 – Tillie Olsen, American short story writer (d. 2007) 1914 – Harold Russell, Canadian-American...
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    Coiner, Constance (1998). Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur (Illini Books ed.). Urbana: University of Illinois...
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  • Coiner, Constance (1998). Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur (Illini Books ed.). Urbana: University of Illinois...
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  • completed her MFA at Stanford University with Wallace Stegner. There she met Tillie Olsen, and the two began a lifelong friendship. In 1960, she was a recipient...
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    and description". Called "the unmistakable work of early genius" by Tillie Olsen, Black Tickets was praised by Raymond Carver: "These stories of America's...
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  • Levinsky, South African-English biochemist and academic (b. 1943) 2007 – Tillie Olsen, American short story writer (b. 1912) 2007 – Darrent Williams, American...
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  • singer Tillie Olsen (1912–2007), American writer and early feminist Tillie Paul (1863–1952), Tlingit translator and Christian missionaries Tillie S. Pine...
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    professional American football player Jack Natteford, Hollywood screenwriter Tillie Olsen, writer Fannie Quigley, pioneer and prospector Darryl F. Zanuck, Academy...
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  • place her somewhere in the same arena as Alice Munro, Grace Paley, maybe Tillie Olsen. In common with them, she writes with a guiding intelligent compassion...
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  • "I Want You Women up North to Know" is the first published poem by Tillie Olsen, appearing in the Partisan Review (March 1934). It is based on a letter...
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    F. Cody, Loren Eiseley, Michel Foucault, Che Guevara, Wright Morris, Tillie Olsen, Mari Sandoz, Wallace Stegner, Leo Tolstoy, Philip Wylie, and Stefan...
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  • as diverse as John Cheever, Bernard Malamud, Joyce Carol Oates, and Tillie Olsen offered sharply observed, generally realistic stories that eschewed trite...
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  • Eliason and Alev Lytle is based on the 1961 O. Henry Award novella from Tillie Olsen's collection of short stories of the same name. Tell Me a Riddle was Grant's...
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    "Yonnondio" influenced both a book (Yonnondio: From the Thirties, 1974) by Tillie Olsen and a sixteen-minute film, Yonnondio (1994) by Ali Mohamed Selim. Whitman's...
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  • Born to socialist parents in Omaha, renowned Jewish feminist author Tillie Olsen worked when she was young in the meatpacking plants and helped organize...
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    a seminar that included Larry McMurtry, Robert Stone, Ernest Gaines, Tillie Olsen, and Ken Kesey.: 139  Berry's first novel, Nathan Coulter, was published...
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  • Lawrence Sargent Hall The Ledge The Hudson Review, Winter 1958–59 1961 Tillie Olsen Tell Me a Riddle New World Writing 1962 Katherine Anne Porter Holiday...
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  • Teducation Tillie Olsen for Silences William S. Penn for Killing Time With Strangers Malcolm Margolin, Editor Ted Joans, Lifetime Achievement Tillie Olsen, Lifetime...
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  • Robert Mezey Ottessa Moshfegh Gurney Norman Jenny Offill Raymond Oliver Tillie Olsen Julie Orringer Nancy Packer ZZ Packer Charlotte Painter Robert Pinsky...
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    throughout the 1920s through 1950s, with several creative figures, including Tillie Olsen, Wallace Thurman, Lloyd Hunter, and Anna Mae Winburn emerging from the...
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  • Malcolm Cowley, who was "always glad to see" Kesey and fellow auditor Tillie Olsen. Cowley was succeeded the following quarter by the Irish short-story...
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  • the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Women labor organizers such as Tillie Olsen and Rowena Moore were active in the meatpacking industry in the 1930s...
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  • actor Conor Oberst — singer-songwriter, Bright Eyes and Desaparecidos Tillie Olsen — author Jed Ortmeyer — professional ice hockey player Sono Osato — dancer...
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