20071110 AP: Newsday - Writer Norman Mailer has died at age 84

Poet and short story writer Grace Paley passes away

Aug. 22, 2007

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Poet and short story writer Grace Paley, a literary eminence and old-fashioned rebel who described herself as a "combative pacifist," died on Aug. 22.

She was 84. Paley, who had battled breast cancer, died at her home in Thetford Hill, Vt.

Among her story collections were "Enormous Changes at the Last Minute," 1974, and "Later the Same Day,"

1985. (AP/Toby Talbot)