Alison lurie biography
- Alison Stewart Lurie (September 3, 1926 – December 3, 2020) was an American novelist and academic.
- Alison Stewart Lurie was an American novelist and academic.
- Alison Stewart Lurie was born in Chicago on Sept.
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Alison Lurie papers, 1937-20201911-2020
Collection Number: 14-12-2572
Container
Description
Date
Series I. Books
V. R. Lang - A Memoir (1959)
V. R. Lang - A Memoir, 1959
V.R. Lang - 1975 ed.
Scope and Contents
The New Review - Vol 2 No 15; photo of "Violet in Europe on her honeymoon"
V.R. Lang - Letters about Memoir
V.R. Lang - A Memoir - Lurie's personal copy, with original paper wrapping
Love and Friendship (1962)
Love and Friendship - Notes
Love and Friendship - Draft (1)
Love and Friendship - Draft (2)
Love and Friendship - Draft (3)
Love and Friendship - Draft (4)
Love and Friendship - Draft (5)
Love and Friendship - Final version used by printer (1), 28 Sep 1961
Love and Friendship - Fi
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Alison Lurie
Overview
American writer and scholar Alison Lurie (1926-2020) was probably best known for her novels, which have often been described as social satire. Her first novel, Love and Friendship (1962), is set in the imaginary New England college town of Converse and describes an unexpected love affair. The Nowhere City (1965) takes place in Los Angeles, where Alison Lurie and her family lived from 1957 to 1961. Its characters include a film starlet, a psychiatrist, and other assorted local types. The War Between the Tates (1974) is set in Corinth University, which has been said to have some similarities to Cornell, and its main characters are a professor who becomes involved with a graduate student, and his distressed wife. Real People (1969) and Imaginary Friends (1967) also take place in upstate New York: the first in an artists' colony and the second in a small town where a group of eccentrics believe themselves to be in touch with flying saucers. Only Children (1979), the story of a disastro
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Alison Lurie
American novelist and academic (1926–2020)
For the rapper Allison Jayne Lurie, see Fan 3.
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Alison Lurie in 1981 | |
| Born | Alison Stewart Lurie (1926-09-03)September 3, 1926 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | December 3, 2020(2020-12-03) (aged 94) Ithaca, New York, U.S. |
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| Education | Harvard University (BA) |
| Period | 1962–2020 |
| Notable awards | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1985) |
| Spouse | Jonathan Bishop (m. 1948; div. 1985)Edward Hower |
| Children | 3 |
Alison Stewart Lurie (September 3, 1926 – December 3, 2020) was an American novelist and academic. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her 1984 novel Foreign Affairs. Although better known as a novelist, she wrote many non-fiction books and articles, particularly on children's literature and the semiotics of dress.
Life
Alison Stewart Lurie was born on September 3, 1926, in Chicago, and raised in White Plains, New York. Her father Harry Lawrence Lurie was a sociologist, and her
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