Tillie Olsen

TILLE OLSEN is the author of Tell Me A Riddle, Yonnondio, and Silences. She has received numerous awards and honors, including the O. Henry Award for the best short story in 1961, a Guggendeim Fellowship, and honorary degrees from several colleges and universities, including the University of Nebraska. With the publication of her edition of Life in the Iron Mills by Rebecca Harding Davis, for which she wrote the Biographical Afterword, The Feminist Press inaugurated its series of feminist literary classics in 1971. Tillie Olsen lives in California with her husband, and near their four daughters and seven grandchildren.

• • 
  • Mother to Daughter, Daughter to Mother
  • Tillie Olsen
• • 
  • Silences
  • Tillie Olsen
• • 
  • The Riddle of Life and Death
  • Leo Tolstoy
    Tillie Olsen