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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.
Dec 3, 2020 · Alison Lurie was a Pulitzer Prize–winning author of fiction, children's books and nonfiction. Born in Chicago and raised in White Plains, New York, she joined the English department at Cornell University in 1970, where she taught courses on children’s literature, among others.
Alison Lurie has 73 books on Goodreads with 89105 ratings. Alison Lurie’s most popular book is Foreign Affairs.
Jan 1, 1998 · Alison Lurie was a Pulitzer Prize–winning author of fiction, children's books and nonfiction. Born in Chicago and raised in White Plains, New York, she joined the English department at Cornell University in 1970, where she taught courses on children’s literature, among others.
Dec 3, 2020 · Alison Lurie, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer whose mordant novels punctured pretension, deflated dogma and illuminated the staggering talent of smart people for self-deception, died on...
Alison Lurie, (1926-2020) was best-known for her novels, often described as social satire, and for her writings on children's literature.
Welcome to Alison Lurie's website. “One of this country's most able and witty novelists.”. — The New York Times Book Review. “Warm, clever, funny” — Times Literary Supplement (London) “Alison Lurie’s fiction will outlast that of many currently more fashionable names.
Alison Lurie, American writer whose urbane and witty novels usually feature upper-middle-class academics in a university setting. Her notable books include The War Between the Tates (1974) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Foreign Affairs (1984). Learn more about Lurie’s life and career.
Dec 4, 2020 · Professor Emerita of English Alison Lurie, the award-winning and critically acclaimed writer who set some of her fiction on a campus with a striking similarity to Cornell’s, died Dec. 3 in Ithaca. She was 94.
Dec 4, 2020 · Alison Lurie, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist whose satirical and cerebral tales of love and academia included the marital saga “The War Between the Tates” and the comedy of Americans...
