Tillie Lerner Olsen

(1912- ) born in Omaha. Author, reformer, recipient of O'Henry Award in 1961 for best American short story "Tell Me a Riddle", which was adapted for an Academy Award-winning film in 1981, her short stories appear in more than 70 anthologies, recipient of 10 awards and honors, published an essay in Newsweek, January 3, 1994. Consult Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol 28 Twentieth Century American-Jewish Fiction Writers (Gale, 1984) 196-203 and Contemporary Authors-New Revision Series, Vol 74 (Gale 1999) 291-294 and Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald, November 8, 1998, p. A-31.

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