Some of her jobs after leaving highschool were alienatingly bourgeois, like working in an antiquarian bookstore. Other casual paid work was less important in her life than her speaking on behalf of the Young Communist League
Family and Intimate relationships
Tillie Olsen
Tillie Lerner
married Abraham Goldfarb
in Reno, Nevada, where they had eloped. She used the name Matilda, backformed from Tillie.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Tillie Olsen
TO
's first husband, Abraham Goldfarb
, was found dead under a bridge in his smashed-up car. Some suspected foul play; some suspected union infighting, or Tillie.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Tillie Olsen
The future TO
bore a daughter with her first husband, Abe Goldfarb
. They named her Karla Barucha Goldfarb
after Karl Marx
; the birth certificate again called Tillie Matilda.
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Tillie Olsen
By late 1929 Tillie Lerner met Abraham Jevons Goldfarb
, a radical writer who was like herself the child of Russian Jewish immigrants to the USA. She ran away with him after her eighteenth birthday...
Material Conditions of Writing
Tillie Olsen
After marrying Abe Goldfarb
at a time of near-starvation for many American workers, the future TO
wrote dramatic and publishable journalism under the pseudonym of T(h)eresa Landale in support of the Communist Party
.
Reid, Panthea. Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles. Rutgers University Press, 2010.