Tell Me a Riddle and Silences, Olsen was born in 1912 in the Russian Jewish and Socialist community in Omaha.
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Please call 308.234.8299 for more information. This is presumably because women writers, even more than their male counterparts, recognize what a heroic feat it is to have held down a job, raised four children, and still somehow managed to become and to remain a writer. Atwood A legend walked the Creighton campus last Wednesday, a piece of history, a part of the main. The legend took the form of the world-renowned Tillie Olsen, one of the most celebrated American writers of this century. And she's from Omaha.