Alison Lurie (1926–2020)
Autor(a) de Foreign Affairs
About the Author
Novelist Alison Lurie was born September 3, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois to Harry and Bernice Stewart Lurie. She is an American novelist and academic. Lurie won the Pulitzer Prize for her 1984 novel Foreign Affairs. She received an A.B. from Radcliffe College in 1947. After finishing college, Lurie mostrar mais worked as an editorial assistant for Oxford University Press in New York, but she wanted to make a living as a writer. After years of receiving rejection slips, she devoted herself to raising her children. Lurie had taught at Cornell University since 1968, becoming a full professor in 1976 specializing in folklore and children's literature. Lurie's first novel was "Love and Friendship" (1962) and its characters were modeled on friends and colleagues. Afterwards, she published "The Nowhere City" (1965), "Imaginary Friends" (1967), "The War Between the Tates" (1974), which tells of the collapse of a perfect marriage between a professor and his wife, "Only Children" (1979), and "The Truth About Lorin Jones" (1988). "Foreign Affairs" (1984) won the Pulitzer Prize; it tells the story of two academics in England who learn more about love than academia. Her more recent books include the novels "Women and Ghosts" (1994), and "The Last Resort" (1998), and a work of nonfiction, "Familiar Spirits (2001)." Among her awards and honors, she received honorary degrees from the University of Oxford (2006) and the University of Nottingham (2007). And from 2012-2014, she was the official author of the state of New York. Alison Lurie died on December 3, 2020 in Ithaca, NY at the age of 94. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: Alison Lurie portrait session on January 31, 1989 in France
Obras por Alison Lurie
The Double Poet 1 exemplar
Associated Works
The Company They Kept, Volume Two: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships (2011) — Contribuidor — 21 exemplares
Onthebus No. 8 and 9 — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1926-09-03
- Data de falecimento
- 2020-12-03
- Localização do túmulo
- Pleasant Grove Cemetery
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Ithaca, New York, USA
- Locais de residência
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
Ithaca, New York, USA
Key West, Florida, USA
White Plains, New York, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA
Massachusetts, USA (mostrar todos 7)
London, England, UK - Educação
- Radcliffe College
- Ocupações
- Professor of American Literature
novelist
critic - Relações
- Hower, Edward (second husband)
Bishop, John Peale (ex-father-in-law)
Bishop, Jonathan (first husband) - Organizações
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1989)
Cornell University - Prémios e menções honrosas
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award ( [1978]) (fiction)
Doctor of Literature honoris causa, Oxford University - Agente
- Jackson, Melanie
Membros
Discussions
May 2021: Alison Lurie em Monthly Author Reads (Maio 2021)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 31
- Also by
- 16
- Membros
- 5,692
- Popularidade
- #4,340
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Críticas
- 116
- ISBN
- 295
- Línguas
- 12
- Marcado como favorito
- 6
I wanted this book to address a subject that really interests me, which is the way some kids books intentionally guide their readers toward a certain way of thinking. I was actually hoping this book would be a better version of my college seminar paper, which was about how Disney movies paved the way for gay rights. Oh well.… (mais)