"Tell Me a Riddle" is a short story by
Tillie Olsen
Tillie may refer to:
__NOTOC__ Places in the United States
* Tillie, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
* Tillie, Pennsylvania, a former populated place
* Tillie Creek, California
People
* Tillie (name), a given name and surname
Animal
* Tilli ...
. It was published in 1961 as the title story of a collection of four Olsen short stories.
Reception
The short story "Tell Me a Riddle" has been called "a powerful study of the politics of voice", "an American Classic", and described as "beautifully crafted and painfully real in the issues of family that it raises".
It received the 1961
O. Henry Award
The O. Henry Award is an annual American award given to short stories of exceptional merit. The award is named after the American short-story writer O. Henry.
The ''PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories'' is an annual collection of the year's twenty best ...
.
Adaptations
''
Tell Me a Riddle'', a film based on the short story collection, was released in 1980.
References
External links
''Tell Me a Riddle'' study guideTillie Olsen's 'Tell Me a Riddle': The Catastrophe of History"No one's private ground": A Bakhtinian reading of Tillie Olsen's Tell Me a Riddle
1956 short stories
1961 short story collections
American short stories
American short story collections
Feminism and the family
Short stories adapted into films
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