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Alison Lurie
Alison Lurie in 1987
Alison Lurie in 1987
BornAlison Stewart Lurie
(1926-09-03)September 3, 1926
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
DiedDecember 3, 2020(2020-12-03) (aged 94)
Ithaca, New York, U.S.
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • academic
EducationHarvard University (BA)
Period1962–2020
Notable awardsPulitzer Prize for Fiction (1985)
Spouse
Jonathan Bishop
(m. 1948; div. 1985)

Edward Hower
Children3

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.

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Familiar Spirits is a memoir published in 2000 by American writer Alison Lurie. In it, she recounts a friendship with a poet James Merrill and his life...

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The Changing Light at Sandover

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Demon Copperhead

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Walker (1983) Ironweed by William Kennedy (1984) Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (1985) Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (1986) A Summons to Memphis by...

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The War Between the Tates

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The War Between the Tates is a campus novel by Alison Lurie that takes place at an elite university during the upheavals of the late 1960s and gently and...

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Imaginary Friend

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2006 film starring Abigail Breslin Imaginary Friends, a 1967 novel by Alison Lurie Imaginary Friend (novel), a 2019 novel by Stephen Chbosky Foster's Home...

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Radcliffe College

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conservative families.) Reflecting on her time at Radcliffe, writer Alison Lurie stated that "most of the time we were in a mild state of euphoria...our...

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The Consolations of Philosophy

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Botton may well achieve the impossible by making philosophy popular." Alison Lurie in New York Review of Books said, "the simplicity of his writing is not...

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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

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Novel New York Raymond Carver, Cathedral Thomas Berger, The Feud 1985 Alison Lurie (1926–2020) Foreign Affairs Random House (1984) Novel Illinois Diana...

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Edward Gorey

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Gorey, with a group of recent Harvard and Radcliffe alumni including Alison Lurie (1947), John Ashbery (1949), Donald Hall (1951), and O'Hara (1950), amongst...

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Yaddo

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Jacob Lawrence Young Jean Lee Alan Lelchuk Robert Lowell Grace Lumpkin Alison Lurie Carmen Maria Machado Rosemary Mahoney Carson McCullers Melissa Meyer...

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Lolly Willowes

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introduction to the novel's republication by New York Review Books, Alison Lurie wrote that "a woman who refuses the 'Aunt Lolly' role is, in the view...

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Campus novel

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Men's Daughters by Richard G. Stern (1973) The War Between the Tates by Alison Lurie (1974) Porterhouse Blue by Tom Sharpe (1974) Changing Places by David...

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Lorrie Moore

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enrolled in Cornell University's M.F.A. program, where she was taught by Alison Lurie. Upon graduation from Cornell, Moore was encouraged by a teacher to contact...

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Walker (1983) Ironweed by William Kennedy (1984) Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (1985) Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (1986) A Summons to Memphis by...

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Places in Harry Potter

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fictitious town in Surrey, England, located to the south of London. Alison Lurie noted in the New York Review of Books that Little Whinging's name is...

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Alison Bishop

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Alison Bishop may refer to: Alison Mason Kingsbury (1898–1988), American artist Alison Jolly (1937–2014), American primatologist Alison Lurie (1926–2020)...

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Horton Hatches the Egg

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of topics, including economics, Christianity, feminism, and adoption. Alison Lurie, in a 1990 article about Dr. Seuss from a feminist perspective, criticized...

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The Cat in the Hat

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did go on but that silence is the better part of valor in this case". Alison Lurie agrees, writing, "there is a strong suggestion that they might not tell...

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And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street

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analyses have examined the relationship between Marco and his father. Alison Lurie asserts that Marco's factual reply to his father at the end of the story...

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James Merrill

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Admire: The Politics of Poetic Satire from Dryden to Merrill (2003) Alison Lurie, Familiar Spirits: A Memoir of James Merrill and David Jackson (2000)...

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Damsel in distress

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"Damsel in Distress (Part 2) Tropes vs Women". 28 May 2013. See, e.g., Alison Lurie, "Fairy Tale Liberation", The New York Review of Books, v. 15, n. 11...

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