Olsen's friendship with another writer, Alice Walker
, survived various fallings-out. It finally ended when Olsen visited China in June 1983 with a party including Walker and Paule Marshall
; the issue was Olsen's monopolizing...
Textual Production
Olive Senior
OS
took up writing seriously after taking a Creative Writing course while doing her degree in Print Journalism at the Carleton University School of Journalism
in Ottawa, Canada. During the 1960s and 1970s she...
Travel
Alice Walker
In June 1983 AW
visited China for three weeks as a member of a women writers' cultural exchange organized by Paule Marshall
. She loved the friendliness of the people and the new trees planted...
Travel
Tillie Olsen
Apart from indefatigable travel around the USA (including Hawaii), TO
visited London, Paris, and the USSR with her husband in 1980. In London she met the staff at Virago
, her publisher...