Her book of linked short stores, Tell Me A Riddle, is an American classic. In his book, The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination, Robert Coles writes about how these stories touched so many of his students of all backgrounds, particularly women. Olsen's nonfiction book, Silences, dealt with the barriers she and others experienced to writing they couldn't complete or publish, which includes self-censorship, with particular attention to the barriers to women writers. Olsen finally did publish some of the work that caused her so much trouble, as Yonnodio: From the Thirties. She'd been a union activist then. She died on New Year's Day in Oakland, CA, a couple of weeks shy of her 95th birthday.
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