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A Short Biography of Tillie Lerner Olsen

Author Name:

Tillie Lerner Olsen

Born As:

Tillie Lerner Olsen

Other Names:

Born:

14 Jan 1913

Died:

01 Jan 2007




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Writer                          
Selected Works:

Tell Me A Riddle-  Lippincott-  1961. Reprinted-  Rutgers University Press -  1995
Yonnondio: From the Thirties-  Delacorte - 1974. Reprinted-  Dell - 1989.
Silences-  Delacorte-  1978. Reprinted-  Dell-  1989. Reprinted-  The Feminist Press-  2003.
Mothers to Daughter-  Daughter to Mother: Mothers on Mothering: A Daybook and Reader-  The Feminist Press-  1989.
Mothers & Daughters: That Special Quality: An Exploration in Photographs with Estelle Jussim-  Aperture-  1995.
The Riddle of Life And Death with Leo Tolstoy-  The Feminist Press-  2007.                          
                          
Teacher and Writer-in-Residence:
Amherst College
Stanford University
MIT
Kenyon College.

Recipient of nine honorary degrees
National Endowment for the Arts fellowships Guggenheim Fellowship.

Rea Award for the Short Story - 1994 - For a lifetime of outstanding achievement in the field of short story writing.                          
First generation of American feminists.

Reviewing Olsen's life in The New York Times Book Review, Margaret Atwood attributed Ms. Olsen’s small output to her full life as a wife and mother, a “grueling obstacle course” experienced by many writers.