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(1937-2014) Author. Alison Jolly was born in Ithaca, New York. She received a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University in 1958. She died in Lewes, East Sussex, England.

Full Name

Alison Jolly

Locations

Tompkins

Author's Timeline


1937

BIRTH

Alison Bishop was born in Ithaca, New York, on May 9, 1937. She was the daughter of Morris G. Bishop who was a novelist, essayist, and comic poet. She was married to Richard Jolly.

1958

OTHER

Dr. Jolly received a bachelor's degree from Cornell University in 1958.

1966

LITWORK

Lemur Behavior: A Madagascar Field Study
University of Chicago Press
0226405524 / 978-0226405520
Nonfiction.

1972

LITWORK

The Evolution Of Primate Behavior
The Macmillan Company

Nonfiction.

1976

LITWORK

Play: Its Role In Development And Evolution
Basic Books
0465057810 / 978-0465057818
Nonfiction, edited by Alison Jolly with Jerome S. Bruner and Kathy Sylva.

1980

LITWORK

Lords and Lemurs: Mad Scientists, Kings With Spears, and the Survival of Diversity in Madagascar
Houghton Mifflin Company

Nonfiction.

1980

LITWORK

A World Like Our Own: Man And Nature In Madagascar
Yale University Press
0300024789 / 978-0300024784
Nonfiction.

1984

LITWORK

Madagascar
Pergamon Press Inc.
0080280021 / 978-0080280028
Nonfiction.

1999

LITWORK

Lucy's Legacy: Sex And Intelligence In Human Intelligence
Harvard University Press
0674000692 / 978-0674000698
Nonfiction.

2005

LITWORK

Ny Aiay Ako (Ako The Aye-Aye)
Lemur Conservation Foundation
0976600900 / 978-0976600909
Children's book.

2013

LITWORK

Fiddle and the Falling Tower
Jolly Books
1907242430 / 978-1907242434
Children's book.

2013

LITWORK

Fiddle and the Smugglers
Jolly Books
1907242449 / 978-1907242441
Children's book.

2014

DEATH

Alison Jolly died in Lewes, East Sussex, England, on February 6, 2014.

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