Grace Paley
Grace Paley, born in the Bronx in 1922, was a renowned writer and activist. Her Collected Stories was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Her other collections include Enormous Changes at the Last Minute and Just As I Thought. She died in Vermont on August 22, 2007.
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A Grace Paley Reader
Grace Paley; Edited by Kevin Bowen and Nora Paley; Introduction by George Saunders
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
One of The New Yorker's "Books We Loved in 2017"
A Grace Paley Reader compiles a selection of Paley’s writing across genres, showcasing her breadth of work as well...
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Later the Same Day
Grace Paley
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Grace Paley's stature among writers of short fiction was established by her first collection, The Little Disturbances of Man (1959), and reconfirmed with the publication of Enormous Changes...
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The Collected Stories
FSG Classics
Grace Paley
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
This reissue of Grace Paley's classic collection—a finalist for the National Book Award—demonstrates her rich use of language as well as her extraordinary insight into and compassion for her...
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Begin Again
Grace Paley
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A longtime teacher, activist, feminist, and masterful writer of short fiction and essays, Paley is also an accomplished poet. Combining her two previous collections with unpublished work, Begin...
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Just As I Thought
Grace Paley
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
This rich and multifaceted collection is Grace Paley's vivid record of her life. As close to an autobiography as anything we are likely to have from this quintessentially American writer, Just...
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Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
Grace Paley
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
In this collection of short stories, originally published in 1974, Grace Paley "makes the novel as a form seem virtually redundant" (Angela Carter, London Review of Books). Her stories here...
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