Grace Paley was born on December 11, 1922 in Bronx, New York City, New York, USA as Grace Goodside. She was a writer, known for Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (1983), Milestones (1975) and Grace Paley: Collected Shorts (2010). She was married to Robert (Bob) Brayton Nichols and Jesse Paley. She died on August 21, 2007 in Thetford Hill, ...
People talk of alienation and so forth. I don't feel that. I feel angry at certain things, but I don't feel alienated from it. I feel disgusted with it, or mad, but I don't feel I'm not in it.
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I'm not writing a history of famous people. I am interested in a history of everyday life.
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Many of her short-story characters are activists. Her stories center on marriages, friendships, motherhood, and political beliefs.
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She taught at Columbia and Syracuse universities, as well as a creative-writing class at Sarah Lawrence College for 18 years.
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Noted short story author.
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Daughter of Ukranian-Jewish immigrants, whose original family name was Gutseit.
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Children: Nora and Danny.
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A longtime New Yorker, moved to Vermont in 1988 after having spent summers there.
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