- Has a stepson named Duncan Nichols.
- Had two children with cameraman Jesse Paley.
- Began writing prose in the 1950s.
- One of three children of Russian Jews.
- A longtime New Yorker, moved to Vermont in 1988 after having spent summers there.
- Children: Nora and Danny.
- Daughter of Ukrainian-Jewish immigrants, whose original family name was Gutseit.
- Noted short story author.
- She taught at Columbia and Syracuse universities, as well as a creative-writing class at Sarah Lawrence College for 18 years.
- Many of her short-story characters are activists. Her stories center on marriages, friendships, motherhood, and political beliefs.
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