Oral Histories

Interview of Tillie Olsen

Novelist and short story writer.
Series:
Interviews conducted by Constance Coiner for book Better Red
Topic:
Social Movements
Labor Movement
Communist Party
Literature
Biographical Note:
Novelist and short story writer.
Interviewer:
Coiner, Constance
Interviewee:
Olsen, Tillie
Supporting Documents:
Records relating to the interview are located in the office of the UCLA Library's Center for Oral History Research.
Interviewer Background and Preparation:
The interview was conducted by Constance Coiner; Ph.D., American Studies, UCLA. Associate Professor of English at Binghamton University.
Language:
English
Copyright:
Regents of the University of California, UCLA Library.
Series Statement:
These interviews were conducted by Constance Coiner, a faculty member at SUNY Binghampton and a former graduate student at UCLA, as background for her book Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur. They were donated to UCLA after her death by her husband, Stephen Duarte.