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(1926-2020) Novelist. Alison Lurie was born in Chicago, Illinois, and died in Ithaca, New York. Her novel, “Foreign Affairs” won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1985.

Full Name

Alison Lurie

Locations

Westchester

Author's Timeline


1926

BIRTH

Alison Stewart Lurie was born in Chicago, Illinois, on September 3, 1926.

1930

RESIDENCE

As a child, Ms. Lurie lived in White Plains, New York, in about the 1930s.

1962

LITWORK

Love and Friendship
Macmillan
0434439010 / 978-0434439010
Novel.

1967

LITWORK

Imaginary Friends
Coward-Mccann, Inc.
0434439002 / 978-0434439003
Novel.

1970

OTHER

Ms. Lurie taught at Cornell University in the 1970s.

1974

LITWORK

The War Between the Tates
Random House
0394462017 / 978-0394462011
Novel.

1980

LITWORK

Clever Gretchen and Other Forgotten Folktales
Harpercollins
0690039441 / 978-0690039443
Children's book.

1981

LITWORK

The Language of Clothes
Random House
0394513029 / 978-0394513027
Nonfiction.

1984

LITWORK

Foreign Affairs
Random House
039454076X / 978-0394540764
Novel, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1985.

1990

LITWORK

Don't Tell the Grown-Ups: The Subversive Power of Children's Literature
Little Brown & Company
0316537223 / 978-0316537223
Criticism.

1994

LITWORK

Women and Ghosts
Nan A. Talese
0385473923 / 978-0385473927
Stories.

2001

LITWORK

Familiar Spirits: A Memoir of James Merrill and David Jackson
Viking Adult
0670894591 / 978-0670894598
Memoir.

2003

LITWORK

Boys and Girls Forever: Children's Classics from Cinderella to Harry Potter
Chatto & Windus
1422357740 / 978-1422357743
Criticism.

2012

OTHER

Ms. Lurie was selected as a New York State Author by the New York State Writers Institute, located at the University at Albany, SUNY, from 2012 to 2014. The choice for State Author is based on a substantial body of work of notable literary merit.

2020

DEATH

Alison Lurie died at a hospice center in Ithaca, New York, on December 3, 2020.

2020

INTERMENT

Alison Lurie was interred at Pleasant Grove Cemetery in Ithaca, New York.

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