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  • Tillie Olsen
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    …title story for the collection Tell Me a Riddle (1961). After a Ford Foundation grant, she won a fellowship (1962–64) to Radcliffe College. Her 1963 Radcliffe seminar talk explaining how talents can be thwarted coincided with the publication of Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique and helped inform the women’s movement.…

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    …title story for the collection Tell Me a Riddle (1961). After a Ford Foundation grant, she won a fellowship (1962–64) to Radcliffe College. Her 1963 Radcliffe seminar talk explaining how talents can be thwarted coincided with the publication of Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique and helped inform the women’s movement.…

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