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This edition: Grace Paley - Poet, Author, Essayist

Episode Details

Original tape date: April 1, 2004. First aired: April 1, 2004.

Grace Paley, an award-winning writer of poetry, short stories, and essays, talks about growing up in the Bronx in a family of socialist Russian Jews and her work towards peace, justice, and equality. Host: Blanche Wiesen Cook.

Guest List

Dr. Blanche Wiesen Cook Distinguished Professor of History, John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY

Grace Paley American short story author, poet, teacher, and political activist

  • About this series

  • Ronnie Gilbert, Amy Goodman, Ruth Gruber, Erica Jong, Ruth Messinger, Grace Paley, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, and Gloria Steinem are among the distinguished guests interviewed in this series of half-hour interviews, hosted by CUNY Distinguished Professor Blanche Wiesen Cook, author of the prize-winning multi-volume biography of Eleanor Roosevelt.

    Jewish Women in America is made possible by a grant from the Jewish Women's Foundation of New York.

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