Tillie Olsen
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USA, prided herself on being a proletarian writer. She published very few books: a short-story volume, a novel, a book of essays, jottings and quotations about the silencing of writers, and an anthology on mothers and daughters. It is unusual for such a slim output to have such a profound effect on a generation of readers.
was prolific, though, in poetry and political (pro-Communist) journalism and speeches during the 1930s and much later in essays and lectures, many of them about forgotten women writers.
, one of the leading lights of the twentieth-century feminist movement in the - BirthName: Tybile Lerner Tybile means little dove in Yiddish. Her parents had seen enough conflict and hoped for a peaceful future.
- Nickname: The Squeakeress
- Self-constructed: Tillie; Matilda; Theresa Landale; Theta Larimore; Amyused the back-formation Matilda (from Tillie) for her first marriage certificate and other documents.
- Married: Goldfarb; Olsen
- Pseudonyms: Tillie the Toiler; Emily Hulot Olsen