Alison Lurie

Lurie, Alison.

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Alison Lurie is a Pulitzer Prize–winning 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 children’s 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. Her most recent novel is The Last Resort (1998). In addition to her novels, Lurie’s interest in children’s literature led to three collections of folk tales and two critical studies of the genre. Lurie officially retired from Cornell in 1998, but continues to teach and write. In 2012, she was awarded a two-year term as the official author of the state of New York. Lurie lives in Ithaca, New York, and is married to the writer Edward Hower. She has three grown sons and three grandchildren.

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The truth about Lorin Jones
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Comme des enfants
Representative edition published 2021
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Imaginary Friends
Representative edition published 2020
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Words and Worlds
Representative edition published 2019
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Real People
Representative edition published 2018
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Reading For Fun
Representative edition published 2016
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The language of houses
Representative edition published 2015
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Last Resort, The
Representative edition published 2015
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Real people
Representative edition published 2012
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The Secret Garden
Representative edition published 2011
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Baba Yaga and the Stolen Baby
Representative edition published 2008
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Truth and consequences
Representative edition published 2006
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Foreign Affairs
Representative edition published 2006
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La vérité et ses conséquences
Representative edition published 2006
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Clever Gretchen and other forgotten folktales
Representative edition published 2005
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Italy
Representative edition published 2005
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Boys and Girls Forever
Representative edition published 2004
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Sommer in Key West
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Boys and girls forever
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Familiar Spirits
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Asuntos Exteriores
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The Oxford book of modern fairy tales
Representative edition published 2002
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Affären. Eine transatlantische Liebesgeschichte
Representative edition published 2001
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Des animaux extraordinaires
Representative edition published 2001
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