Then one day I had a chance to ask Grace Paley how she had balanced so many things.

On July 25 Grace Paley and her husband, Robert Nichols, will read from their short stories.

I just talked to Grace Paley, and we decided we're going to do something about it.

Reading Grace Paley changed things a lot.

Mattison's characters could be neighbors of any number of Grace Paley's people, with whom they share a place in time.

She died of lung cancer, said Grace Paley, the writer, who was a friend.

Grace Paley, 84, American writer and political activist, breast cancer.

He became close to Grace Paley and had a brief fling with her.

These ingredients are the unremarkable clay and water of Grace Paley's time and place.

Grace Paley's practical, steady work in her actions and in her art is vital to the continuing of civilized life.