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Alison Lurie
(1926 - 2020)Alison Lurie was a Pulitzer Prizewinning author of fiction 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 childrens literature, among others. Her first novel, Love and Friendship (1962), is a story of romance and deception among the faculty of a snowbound New England college. It won favorable reviews and established her as a keen observer of love in academia.
It was followed by the well-received The Nowhere City (1966) and The War Between the Tates (1974). In 1984, she published Foreign Affairs, her best-known novel, which traces the erotic entanglements of two American professors in England. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985.
It was followed by the well-received The Nowhere City (1966) and The War Between the Tates (1974). In 1984, she published Foreign Affairs, her best-known novel, which traces the erotic entanglements of two American professors in England. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985.
Awards: Pulitzer (1985) see all
Genres: Literary Fiction, Fantasy
Novels
Love and Friendship (1962)
The Nowhere City (1965)
Imaginary Friends (1967)
Real People (1970)
The War Between the Tates (1974)
Only Children (1979)
Foreign Affairs (1984)
The Truth About Lorin Jones (1988)
The Last Resort (1998)
Truth and Consequences (2005)
The Nowhere City (1965)
Imaginary Friends (1967)
Real People (1970)
The War Between the Tates (1974)
Only Children (1979)
Foreign Affairs (1984)
The Truth About Lorin Jones (1988)
The Last Resort (1998)
Truth and Consequences (2005)
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Alison Lurie recommends
The Lie of the Land (2017)
Amanda Craig
"Amanda Craig is one of the most brilliant and entertaining novelists now working in Britain and her range of sympathy and humor and understanding of the Way We Live Now are deeply impressive."
Things That Pass for Love (2008)
Allison Amend
"Allison Amend is a gifted storyteller, whose view of contemporary life is often wonderfully acute, original, and surprising."
The Age of Dreaming (2008)
Nina Revoyr
"Brilliant and original... The carefully restrained voice of the narrator, once a silent film star, recalls Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day - but in his past, it turns out, there was also passion, madness, and murder."
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