Grace Paley (1922–2007)
Author of The Collected Stories (FSG Classics)
About the Author
Grace Paley is a writer, teacher, feminist, and activist. Her Collected Stories (FSG 1994) was a finalist for the National Book Award. She lives in New York City and Vermont. (Bowker Author Biography)
Works by Grace Paley
A Conversation with My Father 4 copies
Apologo sulla felicità 2 copies
Nouvelles : Les petits riens de la vie ; Enorme changement de dernière minute ; Plus tard le même jour (2009) 2 copies
Amiche (in Più tardi nel pomeriggo) 2 copies
Madre (in Più tardi nel pomeriggo) 2 copies
Grace Paley reads "A conversation with my father" and "Friends" short stories from her collection Later the same day (1986) 1 copy
An Interest In Life 1 copy
In autobus 1 copy
Livets små förtretligheter 1 copy
Paley, Grace Archive 1 copy
Friends - short story 1 copy
Samuel [short story] 1 copy
Associated Works
Wayward Girls & Wicked Women: An Anthology of Subversive Stories (1986) — Contributor — 537 copies, 8 reviews
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Contributor — 458 copies, 3 reviews
Points of View: An Anthology of Short Stories, Revised & Updated Edition (1995) — Contributor — 415 copies, 7 reviews
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Contributor — 387 copies, 3 reviews
McSweeney's Issue 24 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Trouble/Come Back, Donald Barthelme (2007) — Contributor — 283 copies, 5 reviews
No More Masks: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Women Poets (1993) — Contributor, some editions — 213 copies, 3 reviews
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) — Contributor — 187 copies, 1 review
The Choices We Made: Twenty-Five Women and Men Speak Out About Abortion (1991) — Contributor — 100 copies
War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing (2016) — Contributor — 90 copies, 1 review
Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2003) — Contributor — 76 copies, 1 review
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (2003) — Contributor — 68 copies, 1 review
More Stories We Tell: The Best Contemporary Short Stories by North American Women (2004) — Contributor — 63 copies
The Woman Who Lost Her Names: Selected Writings of American Jewish Women (1980) — Contributor — 52 copies
The Literary Lover: Great Stories of Passion and Romance (1993) — Contributor — 52 copies, 2 reviews
After Sorrow: An American Among the Vietnamese (1995) — Foreword, some editions — 48 copies, 2 reviews
Jo's Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit, and Real Life (1997) — Contributor — 47 copies
The Roads from Bethlehem: Christmas Literature from Writers Ancient and Modern (1993) — Contributor — 30 copies, 1 review
The Defiant Muse: Vietnamese Feminist Poems from Antiquity to the Present (The Defiant Muse Series) (Vietnamese… (2007) — Foreword, some editions — 15 copies
Bread and Puppet: Stories of Struggle and Faith from Central America (1985) — Foreword, some editions — 10 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Goodside, Grace (birth)
- Birthdate
- 1922-12-11
- Date of death
- 2007-08-22
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- The Bronx, New York, USA
- Place of death
- Thetford, Vermont, USA
- Cause of death
- cancer (breast)
- Places of residence
- New York, New York, USA
Thetford, Vermont, USA - Education
- Hunter College
New York University - Occupations
- poet
short-story writer
professor
political activist - Organizations
- Teachers and Writers Collaborative
American Friends Service Committee - Awards and honors
- State Author of New York/Edith Wharton Citation of Merit (1986-88)
PEN/Malamud Award (1994)
Lannan Literary Award ( [1997])
Guggenheim Fellowship (1961)
National Institute of Arts and Letters Award ( [1970])
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award ( [1970]) (show all 8)
F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Fiction (2004)
American Academy of Arts and Letters ( [1980])
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Statistics
- Works
- 84
- Also by
- 71
- Members
- 3,208
- Popularity
- #7,979
- Rating
- 3.8
- Reviews
- 49
- ISBNs
- 93
- Languages
- 9
- Favorited
- 24