Paley, Grace (1922–2007)

US short-story writer, critic, and political activist. Her stories express Jewish and feminist domestic experience with highly ironic humour, as in The Little Disturbances of Man (1960), Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (1974), and Later the Same Day (1985). Her Collected Stories appeared in 1994.

She became the first official New York State Writer in 1989 and served as the Poet Laureate of Vermont 2003–07.