I know that I haven't powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates.

The second part of the book was a study of the work of little-known writer Rebecca Harding Davis. Biography
Olsen was born to Russian Jewish immigrants in Wahoo Nebraska and moved to Omaha while a young child. There Tillie Olsen attended Lake School in the Near North Side through the eighth grade living among the city's Jewish community.