Grace Paley

Grace Paley (December 11, 1922 - ) is an American short story writer, poet, and political activist whose work has won a number of awards.

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Grace Paley was born Grace Goodside on December 11, 1922, in the Bronx. Her Jewish parents, Isaac and Manya Ridnyik Goodside, had Anglicizied the family name from "Gutseit" on immigrating from Ukraine at the age of 21, and spoke Russian and Yiddish in the home along with English. By far the youngest of the three Goodside children (sixteen and fourteen years younger than brothers Thomas and Victor, respectively), Paley was something of a tomboy as a child, allowing her to investigate the conflicts and struggles of her immigrant neighborhood; these issues would later form the raw material for much of her fiction.

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