Grace Paley

"Grace Paley, the celebrated writer and social activist whose acclaimed short stories explored in precise, pungent and tragicomic style the struggles of ordinary women muddling through everyday lives, died Wednesday at her home in Thetford Hill, Vt. She was 84 and lived most of her life in Manhattan before moving to Vermont in 1988." Read more: The New York Times

Listen: IWP Director Christopher Merrill comments on Grace Paley's life and writing (PRI's The World)