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publisher, Viking.
Author Philip Roth said Ms. Paley’s stories display “an understanding of loneliness, lust, selfishness, and fatigue that is splendidly comic and unladylike.”
Critic Adam J. Sorkin assessed Ms. Paley’s writings: “Her stories and tales good naturedly celebrate the toughness and endurance, the humor and resiliency of th/e human spirit — Paley’s fictions are sometimes quite brief. Her plots are often gestures, anecdotes, or monologues, mere snatches of the loneliness of the petty triumphs and the pale ordinariness of the losses and tragedies of neighborhood life — few (stories) possess so much street savvy yet retain so much hope and wonder.”
Although Ms. Paley attended Hunter College and New York University, she has no academic degree. In the '40’s she studied writing with W. H. Auden at the New School for Social Research. However, she credits her poetry writing for teaching her “whatever I know about language and craft.” Her fascination with storytelling began as a youngster listening to her parent’s tales. “I loved to listen, and soon I loved tc talk and tell.”
Along with writing, Ms. Paley supports herself by teaching at Sarah Lawrence College and City College. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1961, a National Endowment for the Arts grant in 1966, and an award for short-story writing in 1970 from the American Institute for Arts and Letters. She also was elected to membership in the institute.
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