Eugene Konecky

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.

Eugene Konecky called Tillie Lerner's highly personal and emotional teenage poems broad, profound.

At home the Lerner children learned Yiddish songs and made up silly plays. Tillie was a difficult child, skipping family chores to spend time at the public library, with its huge painting of...

Tillie Lerner's instructor and inspiration in political radicalism, Eugene Konecky , was also interested in erotic relations with young girls. In summer 1927 she took my first lover—probably a young man named...