1.0 link 75910 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elizabeth-benedict/remembering-elizabeth-har_b_75910.html They died within months of each other, these two towering figures, Grace Paley in August at 84, and, just days ago, Elizabeth Hardwick, at 91. As unlike as they were, I think of them in the same breath, as women who touched the lives of so many of us -- us younger women writers lucky enough to have studied with them or known them. They influenced us with their writing, their teaching, and their very different examples of how to...

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