WRITER

Tillie Olsen

1912 - 2007

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Tillie Lerner Olsen (January 14, 1912 – January 1, 2007) was an American writer who was associated with the political turmoil of the 1930s and the first generation of American feminists. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tillie Olsen has received more than 181,301 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Tillie Olsen is the 6,275th most popular writer (down from 5,790th in 2019), the 11,111th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,945th in 2019) and the 815th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 180k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.04

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Yonnondio
Fiction, Depressions, Poor families
1975
Silences
Women authors, Authorship, Literature
1978
Yonnondio: from the thirties
Coal miners, Depressions, Fiction
1974
Tell me a riddle
Fiction, Patients, Aged women
1964
Tell Me a Riddle
Fiction, Social life and customs, Married people
1961
Mother to Daughter, Daughter to Mother
1984

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Tillie Olsen ranks 6,275 out of 7,302. Before her are George Farquhar, Howard Jacobson, Mah Laqa Bai, Róža Domašcyna, Lloyd C. Douglas, and Dorothy Wordsworth. After her are Fareed Zakaria, Ben Okri, Caroline Norton, John Clellon Holmes, Alexei Panshin, and Charlotte Smith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Tillie Olsen ranks 387. Before her are Henry Jonsson, Joan Hartigan, Studs Terkel, Giuliano Nostini, Valerie Davies, and Zoltán Várkonyi. After her are Otto Licha, Helmut Hamann, June Havoc, Leopold Wohlrab, Bernardino Echeverría Ruiz, and Friedrich Maurer. Among people deceased in 2007, Tillie Olsen ranks 376. Before her are Kenji Nagai, Dusty Anderson, Yelena Romanova, Dadullah, Yelena Petushkova, and Bob Clark. After her are F. Albert Cotton, Ian Wallace, Fenny Heemskerk, Yolanda King, Porter Wagoner, and Teresa Brewer.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Tillie Olsen ranks 11,111 out of 20,380. Before her are Naya Rivera (1987), Kevin Cheng (1969), Jerry Adler (1929), Rob Paulsen (1956), Dave Williams (1972), and Stephen Hadley (1947). After her are Tim Schafer (1967), F. Albert Cotton (1930), Marc Webb (1974), Bill Mumy (1954), Christine Taylor (1971), and Oliver Wolcott Jr. (1760).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Tillie Olsen ranks 815. Before her are Charles Eastman (1858), Studs Terkel (1912), Michael Chabon (1963), Philip G. Epstein (1909), Lauren Weisberger (1977), and Lloyd C. Douglas (1877). After her are John Clellon Holmes (1926), Alexei Panshin (1940), P. C. Cast (1960), Susan Glaspell (1876), Richard A. Knaak (1961), and Helen Hunt Jackson (1830).

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