TO
spent at least a month in hospital from February 1961, having collapsed under the pressure of a major novel promised but not produced. Her biographer Panthea Reid
suspects that she underwent shock treatment, though...
Literary responses
Tillie Olsen
This story was chosen for New World Writing, where according to Anne Sexton
(whose first story appeared in the same volume) it shines out like a miracle.
qtd. in
Reid, Panthea. Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles. Rutgers University Press, 2010.
217
It also won the year's O...
Textual Production
Tillie Olsen
Her biographer, Panthea Reid
, calls TOzanier than most literary geniuses: She was undisciplined, high strung, full of excuses, and passionate.
Reid, Panthea. Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles. Rutgers University Press, 2010.
99
She was at least intermittently serious about her literary aims: in early...
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Texts
Reid, Panthea. Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles. Rutgers University Press, 2010.