Grace Paley died on Wednesday at her home in Vermont. She was 84.

Her literary output is cherished by legions of loyal readers.

“The Little Disturbances of Man” (Doubleday, 1959); “Enormous
Changes at the Last Minute” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1974); and
“Later the Same Day” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1985).

Her “Collected Stories,” published by Farrar, Straus in 1994, was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize
and the National Book Award. (The collection was reissued by Farrar,
Straus this year.)

From 1986 to 1988, Ms. Paley was New York’s first
official state author; she was also a past poet laureate of Vermont.