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"I Stand Here Ironing" is a short story by Tillie Olsen that first appeared in Pacific Spectator and Stanford Short Stories in 1956 under the title "Help Her to Believe." The story was republished in 1957 as "I Stand Here Ironing" in Best American Short Stories. The work was first collected in Tell Me a Riddle published by J. B. Lippincott & Co ...
Olsen researched and wrote the book in the San Francisco Public Library. Tillie Olsen recording her work at the Library of Congress, June 3, 4, 5, 1996. Once her books were published, Olsen became a teacher and writer-in-residence at numerous colleges, such as Amherst College, Stanford University, MIT, and Kenyon College.
She made the wonderful I Stand Here Ironing (1980) based on the Tillie Olsen stories, and later a trilogy of films looking at remote communities in Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Saving Faces documented the patients whose faces had been reconstructed by surgeon Ian Hutchison, who is the chief executive of the charity Saving Faces. Hutchison ...
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Tell Me a Riddle is a collection of short fiction by Tillie Olsen first published by J. B. Lippincott & Co. in 1961. [1] [2]The volume is composed of three short stories and a novella, the title piece “Tell Me a Riddle.” [3] “Tell Me a Riddle” was awarded the O. Henry Award in 1961 for best American short story.
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She specialized in research on fiction by and about women, such as the work of Virginia Woolf, Tillie Olsen, and Jane Lazarre. Frye's first book, Living Stories, Telling Lives: Women and the Novel in Contemporary Experience, [4] was featured in Betsy Draine's 1989 review essay, "Refusing the Wisdom of Solomon: Some Recent Feminist Literary ...
Ken Olsen, the MIT-educated inventor who started Digital Equipment Corp. with $70,000 in venture capital in the 1950s and built it into a company with billions of dollars in sales and more than ...