Grace Paley | |
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| Born | Grace Goodside December 11, 1922 New York City, US |
| Died | August 22, 2007 (aged 84) Thetford, Vermont, US |
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| Education | Hunter College (no degree) The New School (no degree) |
| Notable works | "Goodbye and Good Luck" "The Used-Boy Raisers" |
| Notable awards | member, American Academy of Arts and Letters |
| Spouse | Jess Paley Robert Nichols |
| Children | 2 |
Grace Paley (December 11, 1922 – August 22, 2007), née Goodside, was an American short story author, poet, teacher, and political activist.
Paley wrote three critically acclaimed collections of short stories, which were compiled in the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist The Collected Stories in 1994.[1][2] Her stories home in on the everyday conflicts and heartbreaks of city life, heavily informed by her childhood in the Bronx.[3]
Beyond her work as an author and university professor, Paley was a feminist and anti-war activist, describing herself as a "somewhat combative pacifist and cooperative anarchist."[1]
- ^ a b "The Collected Stories". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2020-09-03.
- ^ Fox, Margalit (August 23, 2007). "Grace Paley, Writer and Activist, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved March 6, 2020.
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