Avi Steinberg awarded 2025 Whiting Nonfiction Grant

Former fellow Avi Steinberg has been awarded a 2025 Whiting Nonfiction Grant for Works-in-Progress for Grace Paley: A Life (to be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux), a biography of Grace Paley, a critical figure in mid- and late-century American and Jewish-American literature, in the women’s liberation movement, in radical Left politics, and in the intersections between these streams. Drawing on unpublished archival material, new interviews, and the latest scholarship, this biography is the broadest investigation to date of Paley’s life and work.