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The Kelly Writers House Fellows Program - Grace PaleyFebruary 14-15, 2000 |
| | Grace Paley reading - A digital recording of the February 14, 2000 event where Paley read from her work, including her story "Friends" from Later the Same Day. See the Writers House calendar entry for more about this event.
Grace
Paley interview/conversation - A recording of the February 15, 2000
audiocast of the interview and conversation with Grace Paley, moderated by
Al
Filreis, Faculty Director of the Kelly Writers
House.
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Grace Paley, the first recipient of the Edith Wharton Citation of Merit,
was born in the Bronx in 1922. She is the author of three highly acclaimed
collections of short fiction--The Little Disturbances of Man
(1959),
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (1974), and Later the Same
Day
(1985)--as well as three collections of poetry, including Leaning
Forward,
also published in 1985. Ms. Paley has taught at Columbia and Syracuse
Universitites, and currently teaches at both City College of New York,
where she is writer-in-residence, and Sarah Lawrence College, where she
has taught creative writing and literature for 18 years. She received a
Guggenheim fellowhsip in 1961, a grant from the National Endowment for the
Arts in 1966, and an award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters
in 1970. She is a member of the Executive Board of P.E.N. Actively
involved in anti-war, feminist and anti-nuclear movements, Ms. Paley has
been a member of the War Resisters' League, Resist, and Women's Pentagon
Action, and was one of the founders of the Greenwich Village Peace Center
in 1961; she regards herself as a "somewhat combative pacifist and
cooperative anarchist." Ms. Paley has two children and one grandchild, and
divides her time between New York City and Thetford Hill, Vermont. In
Spring 1987, Ms. Paley was awarded a Senior Fellowship by the National
Endowment for the Arts, in recognition of her lifetime contribution to
literature.
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