Tillie Lerner's instructor and inspiration in political radicalism, Eugene Konecky
, was also interested in erotic relations with young girls.
Reid, Panthea. Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles. Rutgers University Press, 2010.
37, 41
In summer 1927 she took my first lover—probably a young man named...
Instructor
Tillie Olsen
At home the Lerner children learned Yiddish songs and made up silly plays.
Reid, Panthea. Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles. Rutgers University Press, 2010.
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Tillie was a difficult child, skipping family chores to spend time at the public library, with its huge painting of...
Literary responses
Tillie Olsen
Eugene Konecky
called Tillie Lerner's highly personal and emotional teenage poems broad, profound.
qtd. in
Reid, Panthea. Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles. Rutgers University Press, 2010.
43
Textual Production
Tillie Olsen
Tillie Lerner began to write as a child. She was seven when she composed a poem beginning: The moon was a round red lollypop / stuck in the sky for the clouds to lick.
qtd. in
Reid, Panthea. Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles. Rutgers University Press, 2010.
