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Wants

Grace Paley once said, "I think I could have done more for peace if I'd written about the [Vietnam] war, but I happen to love being in the streets." Grace Paley is the author of The Little Disturbances of Man, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, Later the Same Day, The Collected Stories, New and Collected Poems, and a gathering of essays, Just As I Thought. Her many honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Senior fellowship, a Guggenheim fellowship in fiction, the Edith Wharton Award, the National Institute of Arts and Letters Award for short story writing, a Lannan Award, and a citation as the First Official New York State Writer. Grace Paley is clearly a writer of great renown, but in some circles she is known primarily for her political activism. She is a member of the War Resister's League, the Women's Pentagon Action, and she has long been an influential member of PEN, the international association of writers. Perhaps the best description of her politics is her......


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