Tillie Olsen : one woman, many riddles / Panthea Reid.

Author/creator Reid, Panthea
Format Book
Publication InfoNew Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2010.
Descriptionxvii, 449 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects
Olsen, Tillie.
Women authors, American--20th century. --Biography.

Contents Escapes: 1880s-1916 -- Reality Raised: 1917-1924 -- Magnetic Personality: 1925-1929 -- Revolutionary and Mother: 1930-1933 -- Early Genius: 1934 -- Great Feminine Hope: 1935-1936 -- Dead and Resuscitated Hope: 1937-1939 -- War-Relief Hero: 1940-1945 -- Ex-GIs Ideal Wife: 1964-1950 -- Victim and Remaker: 1951-1955 -- Great Value as a Writer: 1956-1961 -- Ego Strength: 1962-1969 -- Tillie Appleseed: 1970-1974 -- Queen Bee: 1975-1980 -- Image Control: 1981-1996 -- Enter Biographer: 1997-2007 -- Appendix A: Bibliography of Primary Works by Tillie Lerner Olsen -- Appendix B: Family Tree of Olsen, Lerner, Goldberg, and Goldfarb Families -- Appendix C: 1935 Plan for the 1930s Proletarian Novel
Abstract Panthea Reid examines the complex life of this iconic feminist hero and twentieth-century literary giant.Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Tillie Olsen spent her young adulthood there, in Kansas City, and in Faribault, Minnesota. She relocated to California in 1933 and lived most of her life in San Francisco. From 1962 on, she sojourned frequently in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Santa Cruz, and Soquel, California. She was a 1920s hell-cat; a 1930s revolutionary; an early 1940s crusader for equal pay for equal work and a war-relief patriot; an ex-GI's ideal wife in the later 1940s; a victim of FBI surveillance in the 1950s; a civil rights and antiwar advocate during the 1960s and 1970s; and a life-long orator for universal human rights. The enigma of Tillie Olsen is intertwined with that of the twentieth century. From the rebellions in Czarist Russia, through the terrors of the Depression and the hopes of the New Deal, to World War II, the Nuremberg Trials, and the United Nations founding, to the cold war and House Un-American Activities Committee hearings, to later progressive and repressive movements, the story of Olsen's life brings remote events into focus.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2009006026
ISBN9780813546377 (alk. paper)
ISBN0813546370

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Joyner General Stacks PS3565.L82 Z86 2010 ✔ Available Place Hold