《世界文学》一九八二年第四期曾介绍过格雷斯·佩莉的两个短篇小说,颇为中国读者所称道,但是在美国却很少人知道这位女作家还是个女权运动者。她在美国文坛上至今保持着短篇小说高手的称号。佩莉不是个多产作家,二十五年来只出版过三个 World Literature introduced the four short stories of Grace Pelly in the fourth issue of 1982, praised by Chinese readers, but very few people in the United States knew that the writer was a feminist . She still holds the title of a master of short stories in the American literary world. Perry is not a prolific writer, having published only three in twenty-five years