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Tillie Olsen
American writer (1912 – 2007)
Tillie Lerner Olsen (January 14, 1912 – January 1, 2007)[1] was an American writer who was associated with the political turmoil of the 1930s and the first generation of American feminists.
Biography
“'I saw the people, I saw the look on their faces. And it is the look that will be there the days of the revolution. I saw the fists clenched till the knuckles were white, and people standing, staring, saying nothing, letting it clamp into their hearts, hurt them so the scar would be there forever—a swelling that would never let them lull.”—Tille Olsen on the 1934 San Francisco General Strike in 1934.[2]
Olsen was born to Russian Jewish immigrant parents Samuel and Ida Lerner in Wahoo, Nebraska; the family moved to Omaha while she was a young child.[3] There she attended Lake School in the Near North Side through the eighth grade, living among the city's Jewish community.
At age 15, she drop