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Also Known As Grace Goodside
Born December 11, 1922 • New York City • New York
Died August 22, 2007 (aged 84) • Vermont
Notable Works “Enormous Changes at the Last Minute” • “Later the Same Day” • “The Little Disturbances of Man: Stories of Men and Women at Love”
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