She returned to the novel in the 1960s (heartened by the publication of her short-story volume) with a different slate of potential publishers. She wriggled out of her commitment to Viking
(to their indignation) and...
Publishing
Tillie Olsen
At AmherstTO
worked on a novella to be called Requa, which became in time a short story.
Reid, Panthea. Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles. Rutgers University Press, 2010.
236, 251, 252
Seymour Lawrence
offered her $35,000 for the novella if she could get it...
Textual Production
Tillie Olsen
Early in 1980 TO
began getting together a collection of writings on death. Seymour Lawrence
offered $25,000 for this anthology. She was later offered a NEH
fellowship to publish a collection of her speeches, which...
