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American Literary Studies
Tillie Olsen Papers
The Papers
Location: Department of Special Collections, Green Library
Call Number: M0667
Size: 26.5 linear ft
Finding Guide: A printed version is available in the reading room of the Department of Special Collections. Electronic versions of this finding guide are also available. If you have Microsoft's Internet Explorer version 6.0 or higher, click here
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Research Access and Use: Materials in the Department of Special Collections are non-circulating and must be used in the Special Collections' Reading Room in the Cecil H. Green Library. The Reading Room is open 10:00am to 5:00pm Monday through Friday. Photocopies, photographs, and microfilm can be made of some materials in the collections. For more information about the collections and access policies, please contact Special Collections by telephone at (650) 725-1022, by electronic mail at speccollref@stanford.edu
or by regular mail at the Department of Special Collections, Stanford
University Libraries, Stanford, California 94305-6004.
Career of Tillie Olsen (1912-2007)
Novelist, short story writer, and feminist critic, Olsen was born in
Nebraska in 1912 of Russian Jewish immigrants and attended schools in
Omaha through the eleventh grade. Her socialist upbringing, empathy for
the underprivileged, and innovative relation to langauge made Olsen both
a radical and a modernist. Though Olsen published several widely admired
pieces in periodicals during the 1930s, she did not achieve full national
prominence until the 1960s with the appearance of her first book, Tell
Me a Riddle (1961), a collection of stories notable for its subtle
registration of working class America. Also the author of Silences
(1978), a benchmark of feminist criticism, and of the novel Yonnondio
(1974), Olsen "made the mysterious turn and became a writing writer"
while she was a fellow in Stanford's Creative Writing Program during 1956-57. Tillie Olsen died on January 1, 2007 in Oakland, California.
Highlights and Research Potential of the Papers
The Tillie Olsen Papers are arranged in eleven (11) series, including
literary manuscripts, notebooks, journals, and personal writings, correspondence
with fellow writers and social activists, teaching materials, and printed
documents. Especially important are the extensive working notes, drafts,
and revised typescripts for all her published work. Also present are unpublished
fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction. Correspondence includes files
of letters from Hannah Green, Adrienne Rich, May Sarton, Anne Sexton,
and Alice Walker. Among the printed materials are rare and ephemeral items
documenting the socialist labor and feminist movements from the 1930s
through the 1980s.
Selected Biography and Criticism on Tillie Olsen
- Olsen, Tillie. Tillie Olsen Interview with Kay Bonetti [sound
recording]. Columbia, Mo. : American Audio Prose Library, 1 sound cassette
(77 min.) Archive Rec Sound Phono. Summary: The author discusses her
life and her work.
- The Critical Response to Tillie Olsen. Edited by Kay Hoyle
Nelson and Nancy Huse. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1994.
Green Library Stacks PS3565.L82 Z615 1994
- Coiner, Constance. Better Red : The Writing and Resistance of
Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur. New York : Oxford University
Press, c1995
Green Library Stacks PS3565.L82Z613 1995
- Faulkner, Mara. Protest and Possibility in the Writing of Tillie
Olsen. Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1993.
Green Library Stacks PS3565.L82 Z64 1993
Meyer PS3565.L82 Z64
- Orr, Elaine Neil. Tillie Olsen and a Feminist Spiritual Vision.
Jackson, Miss. : University Press of Mississippi, c1987.
Green Library Stacks PS3565.L82Z8 1987
- Pearlman, Mickey. Tillie Olsen . Twayne's United States Authors
Series ; TUSAS 581Boston : Twayne Publishers, 1991.
Green Library Stacks PS3565.L82 Z84 1991
Bibliography of Tillie Olsen
- "Bibliography" in The Critical Response to Tillie Olsen.
Edited by Kay Hoyle Nelson and Nancy Huse. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood
Press, 1994, pp. 261-269.
Green Library Stacks PS3565.L82 Z615 1994
Related Manuscript Collections at Stanford
Olsen, Tillie. Correspondence with Per Seyersted, 1979-1994. Spec Coll
- Green Library Misc 367
Painter,
Charlotte. Papers, 1955-1992. Spec Coll - Green Library M0619
Winters, Yvor (1900-1968) and Janet
Lewis (1899- ). Papers, 1906-1982. Spec Coll - Green Library M0352
Other Repository Holdings
Last modified:
February 12, 2007
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