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1930-1990
M0667
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Title: Tillie Olsen papers
Identifier/Call Number: M0667
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
62.0 Linear feet
ca. 62 linear ft.
Date (inclusive): 1930-1990
Abstract: The collection includes personal and professional correspondence, literary manuscripts by American author Tillie Olsen and
others, material on the Longshoremen's Strike and the Socialist Party from during the mid-1930s, teaching material and student
work, clippings, pamphlets, book reviews, awards, etc. Accessions from 2009 including photographs have also been processed.
Physical Location: Special Collections and University Archives materials are stored offsite and must be paged 36-48 hours in advance. For more
information on paging collections, see the department's website: http://library.stanford.edu/spc.
Creator:
Olsen, Tillie
Tillie Olsen was born in Nebraska in 1913 and has lived in San Francisco for most of her life. Her education was cut short
by the Depression: she wrote and published when young, but the necessity of raising and supporting four children and full-time
work prevented her from writing for twenty years. She was in her mid-forties before she began again. Tell Me A Riddle was
originally published in 1962, and its title novella received the O. Henry Award as the best American story of 1961. In 1974,
forty years after part of its chapter appeared in an early Partisan Review, her 'lost' novel, Yonnondio: From the Thirties,
was published. Tillie Olsen has taught at Amherst College, Stanford University, was Writer-in-Residence at Massachustts Institute
of Technology, Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, and a Fellow of the Radcliffe
Institute. She has received both a Ford Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and
an Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Literature from the American Academy and the National Institute of Arts
and Letters. Her first work of non-fiction, Silences, was published in 1979.
Tillie Olsen Papers. M0667. Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Purchased, 1993, 1994, 1995, and 1998.
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain
permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.
No restrictions.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Aberlin, Betty.
Appleton, Sarah.
Atwood, Margaret Eleanor, 1939-
Bacon, Ernst, 1898-1990
Ballantyne, Sheila.
Barolini, Helen, 1925-
Bingham, Sallie.
Boucher, Sandy
Boyde, Blanche
Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992
Boynton, Grace.
Brandon, Dolores.
Bridges, Harry, 1901-
Brindel, June Rachuy.
Brodine, Karen.
Brown, Rosellen.
Bryant, Dorothy, 1930-
Cahill, Susan Neunzig.
Childress, Alice.
Cliff, Michelle.
Coiner, Constance.
Conroy, Lynne.
Cooper, Jane, 1924-
Cowley, Malcolm.
Cumming, Patricia.
Cuomo, Joe.
De Ford, Miriam Allen, 1888-1975.
DeSalvo, Louise A., 1942-
Duncan, Erika
DuPlessis, Rachel Blau.
Durham, Flora.
Earle, Ralph.
Elman, Richard M.
English, Dierdre.
Ettinger, Elzbieta.
Fisher, Elizabeth.
Foley, Margaret.
Gerson, Deborah.
Gilbert, Celia, 1932-
Gilgun, John.
Goedicke, Patricia.
Goldfarb, Sidney, 1942-
Gottlieb, Annie.
Green, Hannah, 1932-
Greenberg, Joanne.
Griffin, Susan.
Grumbach, Doris.
Guérard, Albert J. (Albert Joseph), 1914-
Hedges, Elaine.
Heffernan, Helen.
Henry, Dewitt.
Homley, Elaine.
Hopkins, Glen
Hughes, Mary Gray
Janows, Jill.
Jong, Erica
Kallet, Marilyn.
Kaye/Kantrowitz, Melanie.
Keeble, John, 1944-
Kitrilakis, Thalia.
Kizer, Carolyn.
Klepfisz, Irena, 1941-
Kolodny, Annette, 1941-
Konecky, Edith
Krapf, Norbert.
Kumin, Maxine, 1925-
Lawrence, Margaret.
Lazreg, Marnia.
LeGuin, Ursula, 1929-
Levertov, Denise, 1923-1997
Lewis, Janet, 1899-1998
Limmer, Ruth, 1923-
MacDowell Art Colony.
Mackenzie, Midge.
MacShane, Frank.
Malamud, Bernard.
Meehan, Maude.
Meyer, Howard N.
Meyer, Odette.
Miller, Nolan, 1912-
Millet, Kate.
Miner, Valerie.
Minty, Judith, 1937-
Mirrielees, Edith R., (Edith Ronald), 1878-1962.
Moers, Ellen, 1928-
Moffat, Mary Jane
Morgan, Ellen.
Moss, Rose
Mumford, Lewis, 1895-
Murray, Michele.
Myers, Margaret, 1947-
Naiman, Adeline.
Nason, Thelma Campbell.
Ng, Fae Myenne, 1956-
Orr, Elaine Neil.
Ozick, Cynthia.
Paley, Grace.
Papanek, Hanna.
Park-Fuller, Linda Marguerite.
Phillips, Jayne Anne, 1952-
Piercy, Marge
Polite, Frank.
Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980.
Radcliffe Institute.
Randall, Margaret, 1936-
Redman, Blanche.
Reeves, Nancy, 1913-
Rich, Adrienne Cecile
Roemer, Michael, 1928-
Rogers, Linda.
Rosen, Norma.
Rosenfelt, Deborah Silverton.
Ruddick, Sally.
Russ, Joanne.
Sarton, May, 1912-
Saxton, Ruth.
Schick, Carla.
Scowcroft, Richard
Sexton, Anne, 1928-1974
Seyersted, Per, 1921-
Shameless Hussy Press.
Shanahan, Thomazine.
Showalter, Elaine
Smith, Alice.
Socialist Party (U.S.)
Starkman, Elaine Markus.
Sternburg, Janet.
Stone, Ruth.
Swan, Barbara.
Sweeney, John.
Tanenhaus, Beverly.
Tovish, Margo.
Turow, Scott
Untermeyer, Louis, 1885-1977
Walker, Alice, 1944-
Ward, Theadora.
Washington, Mary Helen.
Waterman, Ray.
Wilder, Annie.
Wilson, J.J., 1936-
Wong, Nellie.
Wright, Michael.
Yalom, Marilyn
Yamada, Mitsuye.
Zucker, Jack.
American literature--20th century.
Longshoremen's Strike--United States.