was New York's first official state author; she was also a past poet laureate of Vermont.Ms. Paley was among the earliest American writers to explore the lives of women--mostly Jewish, mostly New Yorkers--in all their dailiness. She focused especially on single mothers, whose days were an exquisite mix of sexual yearning and pulverizing fatigue.
from The New York Times: Grace Paley, Writer and Activist, Dies
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