{"product_id":"tillie-olsen-one-woman-many-riddles-9780813546377","title":"Tillie Olsen: One Woman  Many Riddles","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Tillie Olsen: One Woman  Many Riddles  Panthea Reid examines the complex life of this iconic feminist hero and twentieth-century literary giant. Born in Omaha  Nebraska  Tillie Olsen spent her young adulthood there  in Kansas City  and in Faribault  Minnesota. She relocated to California in 1933 and lived most of her life in San Francisco. From 1962 on  she sojourned frequently in Massachusetts  New Hampshire  Santa Cruz  and Soquel  California. She was a 1920s \"hell-cat\"; a 1930s revolutionary; an early 1940s crusader for equal pay for equal work and a war-relief patriot; an ex-GIs ideal wife in the later 1940s; a victim of FBI surveillance in the 1950s;a civil rights and antiwar advocate during the 1960s and 1970s; and a life-long orator for universal human rights. The enigma of Tillie Olsen is intertwined with that of the twentieth century. From the rebellions in Czarist Russia  through the terrors of the Depression and the hopes of the New Deal  to World War II  the Nuremberg Trials  and the United Nations founding  to the cold war and House Un-American Activities Committee hearings  to later progressive and repressive movements  the story of Olsens life brings remote events into focus. In her classic short story \"I Stand Here Ironing\" and her groundbreaking Tell Me a Riddle  Yonnondido  and Silences  Olsen scripted powerful  moving prose about ordinary peoples lives  exposing the pervasive effects of sexism  racism  and classism and elevating motherhood and womens creativity into topics of study. Popularly referred to as \"Saint Tillie \" Olsen was hailed by many as the mother of modern feminism. Based on diaries  letters  manuscripts  private documents  resurrected public records  and countless interviews  Reids artfully crafted biography untangles some of the puzzling knots of the last centurys triumphs and failures and speaks truth to legend  correcting fabrications and myths about and also by Tillie Olsen.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45276019195957,"sku":"ByrdShop_0813546370","price":98.82,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780813546377.jpg?v=1780521382","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/tillie-olsen-one-woman-many-riddles-9780813546377","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}