maha, Nebraska native Tillie Olsen died on January 1, 2007. She was 94.
Tillie Olsen was a renowned feminist, activist, scholar, and writer. Her most famous short stories, "I Stand Here Ironing” and “Tell Me a Riddle,” are widely anthologized and often taught. She also recovered books written by unknown women writers, such as Rebecca Harding Davis’ Life in the Iron Mills, published by the Feminist Press.
Olsen began writing her novel Yonnondio: From the Thirties in the early part of the 1930s and published the first chapter in the Partisan Review in 1934, but the novel was not published until the 1970s. The University of Nebraska Press reissued Yonnondio: From the Thirties in 2004.
Los Angeles Times Obituary for Tillie Olsen
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