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Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Tillie Olsen -- labor activist, author of 'Tell Me a Riddle'

Tillie Olsen -- labor activist, author of 'Tell Me a Riddle'
By Heidi Benson
Author and activist Tillie Olsen, whose landmark book of short stories, "Tell Me a Riddle," depicted the lives of working-class women, died of complications of Alzheimer's disease Monday in Oakland. She was 94. Though she wrote just two other books, "...

 



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