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Born in 1922 / Died in August 22, 2007 / United States / English

Furtherreading

Other info : Career | Bibliography

BOOKS

  • Arcana, Judith, Grace Paley's Life Stories: A Literary Biography, University of Illinois Press (Urbana, IL), 1993.
  • Bach, Gerhard, and Blaine H. Hall, editors, Conversations with Grace Paley, University Press of Mississippi (Oxford, MS), 1997.
  • Baxter, Charles, "Maps and Legends of Hell: Notes on Melodrama," in Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction, Graywolf Press (St. Paul, MN), 1997.
  • Benbow-Pfalzgraf, Taryn, editor, American Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide from Colonial Times to the Present, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 2000, pp. 247-248.
  • Binder, Wolfgang, and Helmbrecht Breinig, editors, American Contradictions: Interviews with Nine American Writers, Wesleyan University Press (Hanover, NH), 1995.
  • Brown, Rosellen, "You Are Not Here Long," in Letters to a Fiction Writer, edited by Frederick Busch, Norton (New York, NY), 1995.
  • Charters, Ann, editor, "A Conversation with Grace Paley," in The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction, 4th edition, Bedford Books (Boston, MA), 1995.
  • Criswell, Jeanne Sallade, "Cynthia Ozick and Grace Paley: Diverse Visions in Jewish and Women's Literature," in Contemporary American Short Story, edited by Loren Longsdon and Charles W. Mayer, Western Illinois University Press (Macomb, IL), 1987.
  • Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 28: Twentieth-Century American-Jewish Fiction Writers, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1984, pp. 225-31.
  • Gelfant, B. H., "Grace Paley: A Portrait in Collage," in Women Writing in America, University Press of New England (Hanover, NH), 1984.
  • Isaacs, Neil David, Grace Paley: A Study of the Short Fiction, Twayne (Boston, MA), 1990.
  • Klinkowitz, Jerome, editor, Structuring the Void: The Struggle for Subject in Contemporary American Fiction, Duke University Press (Durham, NC), 1985.
  • Mickelson, Anne Z., Reaching Out: Sensitivity and Order in Recent American Fiction by Women, Scarecrow Press (Lanham, MD), 1979.
  • Parini, Jay, American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies, Charles Scribner's Sons (New York, NY), 2001, pp. 217-233.
  • Rosen, Norma, Accidents of Influence: Writing As a Woman and a Jew in America, State University of New York Press (Albany, NY), 1992.
  • Taylor, Jacqueline, Grace Paley: Illuminating the Dark Lives, University of Texas Press (Austin, TX), 1990.
  • Todd, Janet, editor, Women Writers Talking, Holmes & Meier, 1983, pp. 35-56.

PERIODICALS

  • American Poetry Review, March, 1994, p. 19.
  • American Studies International, October, 1997, p. 102.
  • Antioch Review, winter, 1999, John Kennedy, review of Just As I Thought, p. 108.
  • Booklist, March 1, 1998, p. 1086; February 1, 2000, Donna Seaman, review of Begin Again, p. 1005.
  • Chicago Tribune, April 21, 1985, pp. 54-58.
  • Commentary, August, 1985.
  • Commonweal, October 25, 1968; May 20, 1994, p. 33.
  • Delta, May, 1982, Jerome Klinkowitz, "The Sociology of Metafiction," p. 290.
  • Entertainment Weekly, July 30, 1999, review of Just As I Thought, p. 65.
  • Esquire, November, 1970.
  • Forward, April 15, 1994.
  • Genesis West, fall, 1963.
  • Guardian (London), August 21, 1999, Isobel Montgomery, review of The Collected Stories, p. 11; December 4, 2000, James Hopkin, "Genre: Grace x 3," p. 22.
  • Harper's, June, 1974.
  • Hudson Review, autumn, 1985, Clara Claiborne Park, "Faith, Grace, and Love," pp. 481-488.
  • Journal of Ethnic Studies, fall, 1983, Rose Kamel, "To Aggravate the Conscience: Grace Paley's Loud Voice," pp. 29-49.
  • Library Journal, February 15, 1998, p. 143.
  • London Review of Books, August, 19, 1999, review of Just As I Thought, p. 32.
  • Los Angeles Times, May 22, 1985.
  • Los Angeles Times Book Review, May 19, 1985.
  • Massachusetts Review, winter, 1985, Peter Marchant and Earl Ingersoll, "A Conversation with Grace Paley," pp. 606-614.
  • Milwaukee Journal, May 5, 1974.
  • Ms., May, 1974, Harriet Shapiro, "Grace Paley: 'Art Is on the Side of the Underdog,'" pp. 43-45.
  • Nation, May 11, 1974, Burton Bendow, "Voices in the Metropolis," pp. 597-598; May 11, 1998, p. 38.
  • New Criterion, September, 1994.
  • New Republic, March 16, 1974; April 29, 1985, pp. 38-39; June 29, 1998, p. 35.
  • New Statesman, March 14, 1980.
  • Newsweek, March 11, 1974; April 15, 1985; April 25, 1994, p. 64.
  • New York, April 11, 1994, p. 64.
  • New Yorker, June 27, 1959.
  • New York Review of Books, March 21, 1974; August 15, 1985, pp. 26-29; August 11, 1994, p. 23.
  • New York Times, March 23, 1968, p. 29; February 28, 1974; April 10, 1985, p. C20; November 14, 1986.
  • New York Times Book Review, April 19, 1959, pp. 28-29; March 17, 1974; April 14, 1985, Robert R. Harris, "Pacifists with Their Dukes Up," p. 7; September 22, 1991; April 19, 1992, p. 10; April 24, 1994, p. 7; May 3, 1994; August 11, 1994; April 19, 1998; June 21, 1998; February 27, 2000, Adam Kirsch, "Lover of Justice, All Kinds," p. 22.
  • Observer (London), January 17, 1993.
  • Partisan Review, spring, 1975, pp. 303-6; Volume 48, number 2, 1981, Marianne DeKoven, "Mrs. Hegel-Shtein's Tears," pp. 217-223.
  • People Weekly, February 26, 1979, Kristin McMurran, "Even Admiring Peers Worry That Grace Paley Writes Too Little and Protests Too Much."
  • Poetry, April, 1994, p. 39.
  • Progressive, November 1, 1997, p. 36; December, 1998, p. 41.
  • Publishers Weekly, April 5, 1985, pp. 71-72; June 18, 1991; October, 1991; Begin Again, p. 58.
  • Regionalism and the Female Imagination, winter, 1979, E. M. Broner, "The Dirty Ladies: Earthy Writings of Contemporary American Women—Paley, Jong, Schor, and Lerman," pp. 34, 41.
  • Ruminator Review, fall, 2001, Kate Moos, "Forms of Invention," p. 49.
  • Saturday Review, April 27, 1968, pp. 29-30; March 23, 1974.
  • Sewanee Review, Volume 81, 1974, William Peden, "The Recent American Short Story," pp. 712-729.
  • Shenandoah, Volume 27, 1976, Donald Barthelme, William Gass, Grace Paley, and Walker Percy, "A Symposium on Fiction," pp. 3-31; Volume 32, 1981, Joan Lidoff, "Clearing Her Throat: An Interview with Grace Paley," pp. 3-26.
  • Studies in American Jewish Literature, Volume 2, 1982, Adam J. Sorkin, "'What Are We, Animals?' Grace Paley's World of Talk and Laughter," p. 144; spring, 1988, Minako Baba, "Faith Darwin As Writer-Heroine: A Study of Grace Paley's Short Stories," pp. 40-54.
  • Studies in Short Fiction, winter, 1994.
  • Threepenny Review, fall, 1980, pp. 4-6.
  • Time, April 29, 1974; April 15, 1985; January 27, 1986, pp. 74-77.
  • Times (London), November 7, 1985; September 26, 1987; July 22, 1999, Iain Finlayson, "A Fight for Peace," p. 45.
  • Times Literary Supplement, February 14, 1975; November 22, 1985.
  • Vanity Fair, March, 1998, p. 220.
  • Village Voice, March 14, 1974.
  • Voice Literary Supplement, June, 1985, pp. 9-10; September, 1992, p. 5.
  • Washington Post, April 14, 1985, David Remnick, "Grace Paley: Voice from the Village," pp. C1, 14; November 15, 1986.
  • Washington Post Book World, April 28, 1985, p. C1.

OTHER

  • Salon, http://www.salon.com/11/departments/litchat1.html/ (1996) Wendy Lesser, "Writing with Both Ears," conversation with the author; http://www.salon.com/books/interviews/ (October 26, 1998) A. M. Homes, "All My Habits Are Bad," author interview.