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American short-story writer and poet (born Dec. 11, 1922, New York, N.Y.—died Aug. 22, 2007, Thetford Hill, Vt.) was known for her realistic seriocomic portrayals of working-class New Yorkers and for her political activism. Paley's first languages were Russian and Yiddish. She attended (1938–39) Hunter College, New York City, and then studied with poet W.H. Auden at the New School for Social Research, also in New York City.

She became involved in the antinuclear movement in the early 1950s and started to write short stories soon thereafter. In 1966 she joined the faculty of Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, N.Y. She was actively involved in the opposition to the Vietnam War and continued her political activism after the war ended, turning her attention to U.S.-Soviet relations, Latin America, human rights, and feminist concerns. Her first volume of short stories, The Little Disturbances of Man: Stories of Men and Women at Love (1959), was noted for its realistic dialogue. It was followed by Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (1974) and Later the Same Day (1985), both of which continued her compassionate, often comic, exploration of ordinary individuals struggling against loneliness. All feature the character of Faith, Paley's reputed alter ego. The Collected Stories appeared in 1994. Two volumes of her poetry, Leaning Forward (1985) and Begin Again: New and Collected Poems (1992), were followed by Just as I Thought (1998), a collection of her essays, speeches, and other writings.

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