Paley, Grace

Paley, Grace

 orig. Grace Goodside

(born Dec. 11, 1922, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Aug. 22, 2007, Thetford Hill, Vt.) U.S. short-story writer and poet. Paley was active in the opposition to the Vietnam War in the 1960s and continued her political activism after the war ended. Her stories, compassionate and often comic explorations of family and neighbourhood life and of individuals struggling against loneliness, are collected in The Little Disturbances of Man (1959), Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (1974), and Later the Same Day (1985). Her poetry appears in Leaning Forward (1985) and Begin Again (1992). Just as I Thought (1998) is a collection of essays and other writings.

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Paley, Grace (b. Goodside) (1922–  ) writer; born in New York City. She studied at Hunter College (1938–39) and New York University. She taught at Columbia and Syracuse Universities during the 1960s, and became a teacher at Sarah Lawrence College. Early in her career she was a poet, but she is most noted for her mastery of the short story form, as in Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (1974) and Later the Same Day (1985). A feminist and peace activist, she lived in New York City and Thetford, Vt.