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Grace Paley (1922–2007)

Author of The Collected Stories (FSG Classics)

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Works by Grace Paley

The Collected Stories (FSG Classics) 773 copies, 11 reviews

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories 566 copies, 6 reviews

The Little Disturbances of Man : Stories of Women and Men at Love 504 copies, 10 reviews

Later the Same Day 286 copies, 3 reviews

Just As I Thought 125 copies, 2 reviews

Begin Again: Collected Poems 81 copies, 2 reviews

Fidelity: Poems 67 copies, 2 reviews

A Grace Paley Reader: Stories, Essays, and Poetry 38 copies, 1 review

New and Collected Poems 28 copies

Long Walks and Intimate Talks: Stories, Poems and Paintings (Women &… 26 copies

Here and Somewhere Else: Stories and Poems by Grace Paley and Robert… 19 copies

New American Review # 1 17 copies

Leaning Forward - Poems 14 copies

A Conversation With My Father 4 copies

Tutti i racconti 3 copies

Selected Stories of Grace Paley: A Selection 3 copies

Langeafstandloopster en andere verhalen 3 copies

Un uomo mi raccontò la storia della sua vita (in Piccoli contrattempi del… 2 copies

Ruthy e Edie (in Piccoli contrattempi del vivere) 2 copies

Madre (in Più tardi nel pomeriggo) 2 copies

L'ascoltatore di storie (in Piccoli contrattempi del vivere) 2 copies

Questa è una storia sul mio amico George, l'inventore di giocattoli (in… 2 copies

Il momento costoso (in Più tardi nel pomeriggo) 2 copies

Zagrowsky racconta (in Più tardi nel pomeriggo) 2 copies

Distanza (in Piccoli contrattempi del vivere) 2 copies

In questo paese, ma in un'altra lingua, mia zia rifiuta di sposare gli… 2 copies

Sognatore in una lingua morta (in Piccoli contrattempi del vivere) 2 copies

Amore (in Piccoli contrattempi del vivere) 2 copies

Da qualche altra parte (in Piccoli contrattempi del vivere) 2 copies

In giardino (in Piccoli contrattempi del vivere) 2 copies

Lavinia, una vecchia storia (in Più tardi nel pomeriggo) 2 copies

Amiche (in Più tardi nel pomeriggo) 2 copies

Ansietà (in Piccoli contrattempi del vivere) 2 copies

A quei tempi, ovvero la storia di uno scherzo (in Piccoli contrattempi del… 1 copy

Ascoltare (in Piccoli contrattempi del vivere) 1 copy

Della poesia delle donne e del mondo (in Piccoli contrattempi del vivere) 1 copy

An Interest In Life 1 copy

La maratoneta (in Piccoli contrattempi del vivere) 1 copy

Giardini di Nordest (in Piccoli contrattempi del vivere) 1 copy

Three Hundred Sixty-Five Reasons Not to Have Another War: 1989 Peace… 1 copy

La bambina (in Piccoli contrattempi del vivere) 1 copy

Batallas de amor (Panorama de narrativas) (Spanish Edition) 1 copy

Storia di emigranti (in Piccoli contrattempi del vivere) 1 copy

Ungeheure Veränderungen in letzter Minute: Storys 1 copy

Enormous Changes At the Last Minute = Saigo no shunkan no sugoku okina… 1 copy

War Resisters League 1985 Peace Calendar: How Shall We Live Together? 1 copy

Geschichten von der Liebe und von Liebenden 1 copy

Apologo sulla felicità 1 copy

In autobus 1 copy

Paley, Grace Archive 1 copy

Am selben Tag, später 1 copy

Politica (in Piccoli contrattempi del vivere) 1 copy

Lettura. 32 dollari di libert� 1 copy

Il concorso (in Piccoli contrattempi del vivere) 1 copy

Arrivederci e tanti auguri (in Piccoli contrattempi del vivere) 1 copy

Ascoltando (in Più tardi nel pomeriggo) 1 copy

Una donna giovane e vecchia (in Piccoli contrattempi del vivere) 1 copy

L'arrosto rosa pallido (in Piccoli contrattempi del vivere) 1 copy

La voce più forte (in Piccoli contrattempi del vivere) 1 copy

Allora, ovvero la storia di uno scherzo (in Più tardi nel pomeriggo) 1 copy

Food (in Tin House Summer 2006 - SPILLMAN) 1 copy

Die schwebende Wahrheit 1 copy

Ergo: The Bumbershoot Literary Magazine (Vol VII) 1 copy

Grace Paley reads "A conversation with my father" and "Friends" short… 1 copy

Nouvelles : Les petits riens de la vie ; Enorme changement de… 1 copy

Friends (in The New Granta Book of the American Short Story - FORD) 1 copy

Un interesse nella vita (in Piccoli contrattempi del vivere) 1 copy

Un diametro irrevocabile (in Piccoli contrattempi del vivere) 1 copy

Vivere (in Piccoli contrattempi del vivere) 1 copy

Canzone triste (in Piccoli contrattempi del vivere) 1 copy

Venite, figli d'arte (in Piccoli contrattempi del vivere) 1 copy

Faith sull'albero (in Piccoli contrattempi del vivere) 1 copy

Samuel (in Piccoli contrattempi del vivere) 1 copy

Faith nel pomeriggio (in Piccoli contrattempi del vivere) 1 copy

Debiti (in Piccoli contrattempi del vivere) 1 copy

Due brevi storie tristi di una vita felice (in Piccoli contrattempi del… 1 copy

Il Riduttore di Guerra (in Piccoli contrattempi del vivere) 1 copy

La verità galleggiante (in Piccoli contrattempi del vivere) 1 copy

Desideri (in Piccoli contrattempi del vivere) 1 copy

L'uomo oppresso (in Piccoli contrattempi del vivere) 1 copy

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Also by Grace Paley

My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro (Contributor) 691 copies, 19 reviews

Wayward Girls & Wicked Women: An Anthology of Subversive Stories (Contributor) 434 copies, 7 reviews

For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (Contributor) 407 copies, 3 reviews

Points of View: Revised Edition (Contributor) 345 copies, 6 reviews

You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories… (Contributor) 341 copies, 3 reviews

Women and Fiction: Short Stories By and About Women (Contributor) 331 copies, 6 reviews

Sudden Fiction: American Short-Short Stories (Contributor) 329 copies, 5 reviews

The Granta Book of the American Short Story (Contributor) 321 copies, 1 review

McSweeney's Issue 24 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Trouble/Come Back,… (Contributor) 264 copies, 4 reviews

Christmas Stories 190 copies

Great Jewish Short Stories (Author, some editions) 188 copies, 1 review

America Street: A Multicultural Anthology of Stories (Contributor) 181 copies, 3 reviews

We Are the Stories We Tell (Contributor) 174 copies

The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (Contributor) 172 copies, 1 review

First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous… (Contributor) 162 copies

The Art of Losing (Contributor) 157 copies, 19 reviews

100 Years of The Best American Short Stories (Contributor) 153 copies, 3 reviews

The Tribe of Dina: A Jewish Women's Anthology (Contributor) 130 copies

The Best American Essays 1995 (Contributor) 127 copies

No More Masks! an Anthology of Poems by Women (Contributor) 111 copies

The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories (Contributor) 102 copies, 2 reviews

The Penguin Book of Women's Humour (Contributor) 100 copies

The Schocken Book of Contemporary Jewish Fiction (Contributor) 100 copies, 1 review

America and I: Short Stories by American Jewish Women Writers (Contributor) 95 copies

The Choices We Made: Twenty-Five Women and Men Speak Out About Abortion (Contributor) 86 copies

The Best American Short Stories 1986 (Contributor) 78 copies

American Short Stories (Contributor, some editions) 72 copies

Nice Jewish Girls: Growing Up in America (Contributor) 65 copies, 1 review

The Ecco Book of Christmas Stories (Contributor) 65 copies, 2 reviews

Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the… (Contributor) 58 copies, 1 review

More Stories We Tell: The Best Contemporary Short Stories by North… (Contributor) 57 copies

War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing (Contributor) 51 copies, 1 review

Infinite Riches: Classic Stories by Twentieth-Century Women Writers (Contributor) 49 copies

The Literary Lover: Great Stories of Passion and Romance (Contributor) 44 copies, 1 review

May Your Days Be Merry and Bright: Christmas Stories by Women (Contributor) 44 copies

Extreme Fiction: Fabulists and Formalists (Contributor) 44 copies

The Seasons of Women: An Anthology (Contributor) 42 copies

The Jewish Writer (Contributor) 40 copies

The Secret Self: A Century of Short Stories by Women (Contributor) 30 copies

The Best American Short Stories 1980 (Contributor) 25 copies

Women's Friendships: A Collection of Short Stories (Contributor) 18 copies

The Paris Review 167 2003 Fall (Contributor) 13 copies

Bread and Puppet: Stories of Struggle and Faith from Central America (Foreword, some editions) 8 copies

In the South Bronx of America (Introduction, some editions) 7 copies

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Goodside, Grace (birth)

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The Bronx, New York, New York, USA

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Thetford, Vermont, USA

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New York, New York, USA

Thetford, Vermont, USA

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New York University

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short-story writer

political activist

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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])

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The Art and Activism of Grace Paley New Yorker 2017

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Paris Review interview (1992)

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