Creator Bio
Grace Paley
1922–2007
Born and brought up in the Bronx, Grace Paley wrote short stories and poetry. As a feminist and peace activist, she wrote works that portrayed the everyday lives of her contemporaries. She taught at Sarah Lawrence College and the City College of New York, earning Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, the National Institute of Arts and Letters Award, and the title of New York’s first state author.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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The Loudest Voice
There is a certain place where dumb-waiters boom, doors slam, dishes crash; every window is a mother’s mouth bidding the street shut up, go skate somewhere else, come home. My voice is the loudest. […
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Zagrowsky Tells
I was standing in the park under that tree. They call it the Hanging Elm. Once upon a time it made a big improvement on all kinds of hooligans. Nowadays if, once in a while…No. So this woman comes up…