Tillie Olsen Memorial

Tillie Lerner Olsen, internationally honored writer, human rights and anti-war activist, a formative voice of the women's movement, and a cherished friend, deeply loved Mother, Grandmother and Great-Grandmother, died January 1, 2007, two weeks shy of her ninety-fifth birthday. 

Please join family, friends and readers for a Memorial Celebration of Tillie Olsens Life:

Saturday, February 17, 2007 First Congregational Church of Oakland 1:00 Celebration followed by reception 2501 Harrison Street (corner of 25th and Harrison), Oakland, California The church is eight blocks from the 19th Street BART Station. Parking on site.

Please share this information with others you kow who cared about and were affected by Tillies writing, teaching, speaking and friendship.

Those who wish to make contributions in Tillie's name may do so to the:

Tillie Olsen Memorial Fund for Human Rights, Public Libraries and Working Class Literature 
c/o the San Francisco Foundation
225 Bush Street #500
San Francisco California 94104

Tillie Olsen is internationally known and honored for her powerful, brilliantly crafted, poetic writing depicting the lives of working-class people, women and people of color with respect, profound understanding and deep love. Her books, Tell Me a Riddle, Yonnondio from the Thirties, Silences and her essays and lectures have been translated into twelve languages. Her works are considered by many to be central to working class literature, women’s studies, and the understanding of creative processes and the conditions, which permit imagination to flourish.