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...I don’t have an inner drive to do as well as anybody else ... I have a great pleasure in writing and part of that is political and part of that is I’m surprised that I’ve done as well as I have. I really am just surprised. - Grace Paley Attribution: Grace Paley (b. 1922), U.S. story writer, poet, and peace activist. As quoted in Listen to Their Voices, ch. 1, by Mickey Pearlman (1993). Despite a slim body of work, Paley had received a great deal of critical attention and acclaim, especially for her short stories.

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Grace Paley

Titles by Grace Paley:

• A Conversation with My Father
• The Long-Distance Runner

eNotes:

• Friedan's Work and the Women in Grace Paley's Short Stories (The Feminine Mystique)
• Grace Paley (A Conversation with My Father)
• Grace Paley’s Faith: The Journey Homeward, the Journey Forward (The Long-Distance Runner)
• A Matter of Voice: Grace Paley and the Oral Tradition (The Long-Distance Runner)
• Grace Paley (The Long-Distance Runner)

Encyclopedia:

• Paley, Grace (The Oxford Companion to American Literature)
• Paley, Grace (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)

Salem on Literature:

• Grace Paley (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
• Grace Paley (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Grace Paley (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
• Grace Paley (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)

Literary Criticism:

• Paley, Grace (Vol. 4) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Paley, Grace (Vol. 129) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Paley, Grace (Vol. 6) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• Grace Paley is born
• Grace Paley publishes The Little Disturbances of Man: Stories of Women and Men at Love