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Tillie Olsen, orig. Tillie Lerner, (born Jan. 14, 1912, Omaha, Neb., U.S.—died Jan. 1, 2007, Oakland, Calif.), U.S. writer and social activist. Raised in Nebraska, Olsen left high school without graduating and in 1930 began agitating for communism in the West and Midwest. Through the 1930s she contributed to the newspaper People’s World as well as magazines, and she started a novel that would be published, unfinished, as Yonnondio (1974). During World War II she was an important figure in war relief work. Three short stories and a novella appear in Tell Me a Riddle (1961). Her subsequent attention to forgotten women writers made her a feminist icon. Silences (1978) collected her essays on the forces that affect creativity.