Paley, Grace
Paley, Grace ( 1922 – ),American short story writer and poet, who grew up in the Bronx, New York city, the daughter of Russian-Jewish parents. She was taught Russian and Yiddish by her father and attended but did not complete courses at Hunter College and New York University. She is the author of three acclaimed volumes of short stories: The Little Disturbances of Man ( 1959 ); Enormous Changes at the Last Minute ( 1974 ); and Later the Same Day ( 1985 ). Pungent and laconic, her tragi-comic stories resound with the cadences of the city where she was raised and are carried by the spoken word. All embrace ‘the open destiny of life’ and the politics of dailiness. Paley has long campaigned on behalf of anti-war movements, nuclear disarmament, and women's rights. Her essays and articles on family, community, and politics are collected in Just as I Thought ( 1997 ). Begin Again: New and...
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