Document Type
Reconsideration
Abstract
[First paragraph]
On January 1, 2007, Tillie Olsen, one of the most respected working-class American writers, died. In her 94 years, pulled in often-conflicting directions by parenting, writing, political activism, literary events, and wage labor, she managed to write three books and several poems, pieces of journalism, essays, and short stories. Her most revered literary works are an unfinished novel she wrote during the Great Depression, Yonnondio: From the Thirties (published in 1974), Tell Me a Riddle (1961), and Silences (1978). Tillie is also greatly admired as a social activist who fought throughout her life for the working-class and, therefore, by necessity against sexism, racism, and capitalism.
Repository Citation
Dawahare, Anthony. "Tillie Olsen (1912-2007)." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 8, no. 1, 2008, pp. 1–5. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol8/iss1/29