The FBI
filed reports on TO
and her family, with such data as her father
's alleged crimes against Tsarist Russia, and pro-Communist statements by her sixteen-year-old daughter
.
Reid, Panthea. Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles. Rutgers University Press.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Tillie Olsen
Tillie's father, Samuel Lerner
, came from the same part of Russia (now Belarus) as his wife. As the only boy in a family of girls he had grown up with many privileges, but...
Residence
Tillie Olsen
There Sam Lerner
worked as a labourer while his wife
raised vegetables and chickens. This experiment, which brought much hardship and shunning by their Christian neighbours, ended in autumn of 1916. They returned to Omaha...