A documentary on Grace Paley, noted short-story writer, poet, educator, and political activist.
GRACE PALEY is America's beloved author, educator and political activist for women's rights and peace. In this 51-minute documentary, Grace reminisces about her life and family, and early literary and political influences. We see Grace at home, in interviews over the decades, and at some of her fabled performance-readings. In Grace's passionate and original life, she integrated her roles as wife, mother, communitry activist, national political mover-and-shaker, educator, and world-famous short-story writer and poet.Grace's close friends and colleages - Jean Valentine, Poet Laureate of New York; Vera Williams, author, illustrator; Eva Kolisch, author, educator; and others - remember Grace as "a combative pacifist and cooperative anarchist" and "a writer of genius."
