Grace Paley (1922–2007)

Author of The Collected Stories (FSG Classics)

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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)

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Works by Grace Paley

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The Collected Stories (FSG Classics) (1994) 968 copies, 14 reviews

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories (1974) 706 copies, 10 reviews

The Little Disturbances of Man (1959) 544 copies, 11 reviews

Later the Same Day (Contemporary American Fiction Series) (1985) 337 copies, 5 reviews

Just As I Thought (1998) 155 copies, 3 reviews

Begin Again: Collected Poems (2000) 104 copies, 2 reviews

Fidelity: Poems (2008) 79 copies, 3 reviews

A Grace Paley Reader: Stories, Essays, and Poetry (2017) 76 copies, 1 review

New and Collected Poems (1992) 33 copies

Long Walks and Intimate Talks: Stories, Poems and Paintings (Women & Peace) (1991) 28 copies

Here and Somewhere Else: Stories and Poems by Grace Paley and Robert Nichols (2007) 22 copies

New American Review # 1 (1967) 20 copies

Leaning Forward - Poems (1985) 16 copies

Tutti i racconti (2018) 8 copies

Batallas de amor (1989) 7 copies

Langeafstandloopster en andere verhalen (2017) 5 copies

A Conversation with My Father 4 copies

Volevo scrivere una poesia, invece ho fatto una torta (2022) 3 copies

Selected Stories of Grace Paley: A Selection (1998) 3 copies

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

Zagrowsky racconta (in Più tardi nel pomeriggo) 2 copies

Pequenas Contrariedades da Existência 2 copies

Distanza (in Piccoli contrattempi del vivere) 2 copies

Apologo sulla felicità 2 copies

Ungeheure Veränderungen in letzter Minute: Storys (2018) 2 copies

3 short stories signed by Grace Paley LOVE - New Yorker Magazine, September 30, 1979; FRIENDS - New Yorker Magazine,… 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 Piccoli contrattempi del vivere) 2 copies

How Shall We Live Together? The 1985 War Resisters League Peace Calendar- Volume 30 (1985) 2 copies

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

Nouvelles : Les petits riens de la vie ; Enorme changement de dernière minute ; Plus tard le même jour (2009) 2 copies

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

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

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

In giardino (in Piccoli contrattempi del vivere) 2 copies

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

Amore (in Piccoli contrattempi del vivere) 2 copies

Amiche (in Più tardi nel pomeriggo) 2 copies

Ansietà (in Piccoli contrattempi del vivere) 2 copies

Madre (in Più tardi nel pomeriggo) 2 copies

In questo paese, ma in un'altra lingua, mia zia rifiuta di sposare gli uomini che tutti vogliono che sposi (in Più… 2 copies

Grace Paley reads "A conversation with my father" and "Friends" short stories from her collection Later the same day (1986) 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

Three Hundred Sixty-Five Reasons Not to Have Another War: 1989 Peace Calendar (1988) 1 copy

Lettura. 32 dollari di libert� 1 copy

In autobus 1 copy

TELLING - short story in Mother Jones Magazine May 1985 1 copy

Ergo: The Bumbershoot Literary Magazine (Vol VII) (1992) 1 copy

Die schwebende Wahrheit (1991) 1 copy

Geschichten von der Liebe und von Liebenden (1997) 1 copy

Livets små förtretligheter 1 copy

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

Am selben Tag, später (2015) 1 copy

Paley, Grace Archive 1 copy

Friends - short story 1 copy

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

La bambina (in Piccoli contrattempi del vivere) 1 copy

La maratoneta (in Piccoli contrattempi del vivere) 1 copy

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

Ascoltando (in Più tardi nel pomeriggo) 1 copy

Arrivederci e tanti auguri (in Piccoli contrattempi del vivere) 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

Il concorso (in Piccoli contrattempi del vivere) 1 copy

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

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

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

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

Desideri (in Piccoli contrattempi del vivere) 1 copy

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

Debiti (in Piccoli contrattempi del vivere) 1 copy

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

Canzone triste (in Piccoli contrattempi del vivere) 1 copy

Vivere (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 [short story] 1 copy

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

Politica (in Piccoli contrattempi del vivere) 1 copy

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

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

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Associated Works

The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction (1978) — Author, some editions — 1,464 copies, 4 reviews

My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead (2008) — Contributor — 774 copies, 20 reviews

Wayward Girls & Wicked Women: An Anthology of Subversive Stories (1986) — Contributor — 536 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 — 414 copies, 7 reviews

You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Contributor — 386 copies, 3 reviews

The Granta Book of the American Short Story (1992) — Contributor — 372 copies, 1 review

Women & Fiction: Short Stories By and About Women (1975) — Contributor — 369 copies, 7 reviews

Sudden Fiction: American Short-Short Stories (1986) — Contributor — 367 copies, 6 reviews

100 Years of the Best American Short Stories (2015) — Contributor — 300 copies, 3 reviews

McSweeney's Issue 24 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Trouble/Come Back, Donald Barthelme (2007) — Contributor — 282 copies, 5 reviews

The Treasury of American Short Stories (1981) — Contributor — 271 copies, 1 review

Christmas Stories (Everyman's Library) (2007) 264 copies, 1 review

Great Jewish Short Stories (1971) — Author, some editions — 244 copies, 1 review

America Street: A Multicultural Anthology of Stories (1993) — Contributor — 236 copies, 4 reviews

The Best American Poetry 2001 (2001) — Contributor — 224 copies

The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (2007) — Contributor — 217 copies, 1 review

No More Masks: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Women Poets (1993) — Contributor, some editions — 213 copies, 3 reviews

The Art of Losing (2010) — Contributor — 210 copies, 21 reviews

Sisterhood Is Forever: The Women's Anthology for a New Millenium (2003) — Contributor — 199 copies

We Are the Stories We Tell (1990) — Contributor — 198 copies, 1 review

First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) — Contributor — 187 copies, 1 review

The Best American Essays 1995 (1995) — Contributor — 163 copies, 1 review

The Tribe of Dina: A Jewish Women's Anthology (1986) — Contributor — 163 copies

The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories (1998) — Contributor — 133 copies, 2 reviews

Growing Up Jewish: An Anthology (1970) — Contributor — 130 copies, 1 review

The Schocken Book of Contemporary Jewish Fiction (1992) — Contributor — 127 copies, 1 review

The Penguin Book of Women's Humour (1996) — Contributor — 124 copies

No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women (1973) — Contributor — 124 copies

America and I: Short Stories by American Jewish Women Writers (1990) — Contributor — 121 copies

Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn (1986) — Preface, some editions — 109 copies, 1 review

The Choices We Made: Twenty-Five Women and Men Speak Out About Abortion (1991) — Contributor — 100 copies

The Best American Short Stories 1986 (1986) — Contributor — 98 copies

American Short Stories (1976) — Contributor, some editions — 97 copies

War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing (2016) — Contributor — 90 copies, 1 review

Nice Jewish Girls: Growing Up in America (1996) — Contributor — 83 copies, 1 review

Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2003) — Contributor — 76 copies, 1 review

The Ecco Book of Christmas Stories (2005) — Contributor — 75 copies, 2 reviews

Great Esquire Fiction (1983) — Contributor — 71 copies, 2 reviews

The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story (2021) — Contributor — 70 copies

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

American Christmas Stories (2021) — Contributor — 63 copies

The Grim Reader: Writings on Death, Dying, and Living On (1997) — Contributor — 61 copies

Infinite Riches (1993) — Contributor — 55 copies

The Jewish Writer (1998) — Contributor — 53 copies

The Woman Who Lost Her Names: Selected Writings of American Jewish Women (1980) — Contributor — 52 copies

May Your Days Be Merry and Bright: Christmas Stories by Women (1988) — Contributor — 52 copies

The Literary Lover: Great Stories of Passion and Romance (1993) — Contributor — 52 copies, 2 reviews

Extreme Fiction: Fabulists and Formalists (2003) — Contributor — 51 copies

Listen to Their Voices: Twenty Interviews With Women Who Write (1993) — Contributor — 51 copies

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 Seasons of Women: An Anthology (1995) — Contributor — 46 copies

The Best American Short Stories 1980 (1980) — Contributor — 36 copies

The Secret Self: A Century of Short Stories by Women (1995) — Contributor — 34 copies

The Roads from Bethlehem: Christmas Literature from Writers Ancient and Modern (1993) — Contributor — 30 copies, 1 review

Who We Are: On Being (and Not Being) a Jewish American Writer (2005) — Contributor — 28 copies

Studies in Fiction (1965) — Contributor — 22 copies, 1 review

Women's Friendships: A Collection of Short Stories (1991) — Contributor — 22 copies

Wonders: Writings and Drawings for the Child in Us All (1980) — Contributor — 19 copies

Twentieth-Century American Short Stories: An Anthology (1975) — Contributor — 18 copies

20th Century American Short Stories, Volume 1 (1995) — Contributor — 16 copies, 1 review

The Author's Dimension: Selected Essays (1993) — Introduction, some editions — 16 copies

The Defiant Muse: Vietnamese Feminist Poems from Antiquity to the Present (The Defiant Muse Series) (Vietnamese… (2007) — Foreword, some editions — 15 copies

The Paris Review 167 2003 Fall (2003) — Contributor — 14 copies

In the South Bronx of America (2001) — Introduction, some editions — 10 copies

On the job: Fiction about work by contemporary American writers (1977) — Contributor — 10 copies

Bread and Puppet: Stories of Struggle and Faith from Central America (1985) — Foreword, some editions — 10 copies

Enjoying Stories (1987) — Contributor — 2 copies

Juvenile Delinquency in Literature (1980) — Contributor — 1 copy

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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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Just As I Thought by Grace Paley

very diverse compilation of paley's (mostly) speeches and writings. much important and profound content, but often presented in a scattered format. paley's beliefs were so strong, and overall, she was a very giving woman. in some ways, she was a real product of the 20th centrury, but she also forced herself to grow. a true pacifist willing to be imprisoned for her beliefs and even viewing prison as an opportunity. she lived part of her life very near stuytown and that added interest and empathy.

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suesbooks | 2 other reviews | Jul 9, 2024 |

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute by Grace Paley

Sharp. Very much one time, one place, and one quirky mind.

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Kiramke | 9 other reviews | Jun 27, 2023 |

The Collected Stories by Grace Paley

There were many excellent value-laden statements and actions in this book, but the presentation was such that I did not understand most of it. There was also too much repetition with slight changes.

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suesbooks | 13 other reviews | Feb 14, 2023 |