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  • Which brings me back to this idea of tearing down or building up: I think this may be the grand theory of unification, how the faces of respectability, such as Tillie Olsen and Scott Turow-the latter who helped endow the writing center that bears Stegner's name-and the faces of gleeful disrespectability, such as Edward Abbey and Gary Snyder, have coalesced in different ways around Stegner's teachings and legacy.

    Orion Magazine Articles by Rick Bass 2010

  • “A daughter of immigrants and a working mother starved for time to write, Tillie Olsen drew from her personal experiences to create a small but influential body of work.”

    We Remember 2010

  • Perhaps the next generation will continue the struggle, reminding today's young women that their opportunities for education, work, and the power to choose how to live their lives, exist in part, because of Tillie Olsen, Alice Walker, Isabel Allende, and many others.

    We Remember - Tillie Olsen, 1913 - 2007 2010

  • Susan Koppelman, the first feminist in Washington University's administration, brought Tillie Olsen and other women authors, such as May Sarton, Alice Walker, and Adrienne Rich for a convocation meant to inspire us — students, future feminists, and activists.

    We Remember - Tillie Olsen, 1913 - 2007 2010

  • A daughter of immigrants and a working mother starved for time to write, Tillie Olsen drew from her personal experiences to create a small but influential body of work.

    We Remember - Tillie Olsen, 1913 - 2007 2010

  • Tillie Olsen is the highly praised author of Tell Me a Riddle, Silences, and Yonnondio.

    Tillie Olsen 2010

  • With her gifts, Tillie Olsen changed the mission of the Feminist Press forever.

    Florence Howe: Statement 2010

  • Flannery O'Connor, Katherine Mansfield, Grace Paley, and Tillie Olsen (yeah, I'm picking just the women right now) are gone but their work isn't.

    Anis Shivani: Short Stories: Writers Talk About The Form To Anis Shivani 2010

  • Early in 1971, a few months after The Feminist Press had been founded at the end of 1970, the writer Tillie Olsen gave me a worn copy of a novella that had been published anonymously in an 1861 issue of the Atlantic, then the most prestigious literary journal of its day.

    Florence Howe: Statement 2010

  • Flannery O'Connor, Katherine Mansfield, Grace Paley, and Tillie Olsen (yeah, I'm picking just the women right now) are gone but their work isn't.

    Anis Shivani: Short Stories: Writers Talk About The Form To Anis Shivani 2010

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