On this day in 1926, Alison Lurie was born. Lurie, a folklorist, children’s literature scholar, and the author of 10 novels, died last December at 94. I first encountered her work a few years ago, when I was poking around the Wikipedia page for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (I recommend it, if... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-09-03 14:49:25 UTC ]
Alison Lurie, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985 for her novel Foreign Affairs (Vintage), has died at the age of 94. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-03 22:01:54 UTC ]
Her books, including “Foreign Affairs” and “The War Between the Tates,” chronicled the lives of women searching for self-knowledge and self-fulfillment. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-12-03 12:42:07 UTC ]