Tillie Olsen is a feminist and working-class author who began writing in the 1930s. Robert Coles commented in The Nation, "Everything Tillie Olsen has written has become almost immediately a classic." Though she is most famous for her shortstory collecti...

Tillie Olsen, feminist and working-class writer,grew up in Wyoming and Nebraska, areas which have not often been the childhood homes of America's Jewish authors. This might explain why, despite the fact that some of her urban working-class characters are...

Long recognized as a feminist and a working-class writer, and more recently as a Jewish writer, Tillie Olsen has rarely been considered a writer of the American West. This may be because she deals with global human issues, trying to “recognize what...

I recall reading The Catholic Moment when it first appeared back in 1987, and due in part to my ongoing interest in conversion, I was immediately intrigued by Richard John Neuhaus' metamorphosis from Lutheran minister to Roman Catholic priest. The process of human...

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Tillie Olsen writes the story "I Stand Here Ironing" in a narrative format. She reveals her life's story and relationships with her children, especially her first born child, Emily.

About Emily's mother and how she feels she was a disgrace of a mother to her child.