Grace Paley
11 December 1922 - 22 August 2007
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Grace Paley, the American short-story writer and pacifist, has died aged 84. She enjoyed a long connection with the War Resisters League; a fuller appreciation of her life will follow in this space.
From the memorial notice in the New York Times, 24 August 2007:
"A wide-eyed chronicler of ordinary lives, she knew the personal was political long before the rest of us, putting the personal into her protests and the political into her art and blending the two seamlessly and joyfully. The War Resisters League and the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute mourn her passing and share her family's grief."
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