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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.
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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, 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).
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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.
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, (1926-2020) was best-known for her novels, often described as social satire, and for her writings on children's literature. Her fiction won her many honors, which include the 1985 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction, the 1989 Prix Femina étanger in France, Guggenheim and Rockefeller grants, and honorary doctorates from Oxford ...
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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...
