Background
LURIE, Alison was born on September 3, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Harry Lawrence and Bernice Stewart Lurie.
(Paul and Katherine a young couple newly arrived in Los An...)
Paul and Katherine a young couple newly arrived in Los Angeles from the ordered but restrained environs of Harvard are forced to reexamine everything that gave their life meaning back in the "real" world. Informed by a brilliant interpretation of East and West Coast lifestyles and attitudes, this novel is an insightful and tellingly funny account of marital dysfunction.
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(WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Virginia Miner, a fifty-so...)
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Virginia Miner, a fifty-something, unmarried tenured professor, is in London to work on her new book about children’s folk rhymes. Despite carrying a U.S. passport, Vinnie feels essentially English and rather looks down on her fellow Americans. But in spite of that, she is drawn into a mortifying and oddly satisfying affair with an Oklahoman tourist who dresses more Bronco Billy than Beau Brummel. Also in London is Vinnie’s colleague Fred Turner, a handsome, flat broke, newly separated, and thoroughly miserable young man trying to focus on his own research. Instead, he is distracted by a beautiful and unpredictable English actress and the world she belongs to. Both American, both abroad, and both achingly lonely, Vinnie and Fred play out their confused alienation and dizzying romantic liaisons in Alison Lurie’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Smartly written, poignant, and witty, Foreign Affairs remains an enduring comic masterpiece. “A splendid comedy, very bright, brilliantly written in a confident and original manner. The best book by one of our finest writers.” –Elizabeth Hardwick “There is no American writer I have read with more constant pleasure and sympathy. . . . Foreign Affairs earns the same shelf as Henry James and Edith Wharton.” –John Fowles “If you manage to read only a few good novels a year, make this one of them.” –USA Today “An ingenious, touching book.” –Newsweek “A flawless jewel.” –Philadelphia Inquirer
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(Polly Alter is 39, a failed artist whose marriage has col...)
Polly Alter is 39, a failed artist whose marriage has collapsed but who has just been commissioned to write the biography of a brilliant but obscure artist, Lorin Jones. Alter becomes obsessed with finding the truth about Lorin Jones, and when she does, she is exposed to truths about herself, as well.
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(Considers why people wear what they wear. The author exam...)
Considers why people wear what they wear. The author examines how clothes identify sex, age and class and how they can indicate the wearer's occupation, geographical origin, personality, opinions, tastes, sexual desires and current mood.
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(Are some of the world's most talented children's book aut...)
Are some of the world's most talented children's book authors essentially children themselves? In this engaging series of essays, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alison Lurie considers this theory, exploring children's classics from many eras and relating them to the authors who wrote them, including Little Women author Louisa May Alcott and Wizard of Oz author Frank Baum, as well as Dr. Seuss and Salman Rushdie. Analyzing these and many others, Lurie shows how these gifted writers have used children's literature to transfigure sorrow, nostalgia, and the struggles of their own experiences.
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(It often seems that the most gifted authors of books for ...)
It often seems that the most gifted authors of books for children are not like other writers: instead, in some essential way, they are children themselves. E. Nesbit devoted weeks to building a toy town out of kitchenware. James Barrie spent his holidays playing pirates and Indians with the four Davies boys. Laurent deBrunhoff, who continued his father's Babar series, is still climbing trees at the age of 70. Beatrix Potter preferred the company of animals and pets to that of eligible young dancing partners at balls. In these fascinating studies, Alison Lurie's subjects range from what fairy tales teach us, to children's games and poetry by and for children, from book illustrators to enchanted forests and secret gardens in children's literature.
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LURIE, Alison was born on September 3, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Harry Lawrence and Bernice Stewart Lurie.
AB, Radcliffe College, 1947. Degree (honorary), University Oxford, England. Degree (honorary), University Nottingham, Englind.
Lecturer in English, Cornell University 1969-1973, Adjunct Association Professor 1973-1976, Association Professor 1976-1979, Professor since 1979. Yaddo Foundation Fellow- 1963, 1964, 1966, 1984, Guggenheim Fellow 1965, Rockefeller Foundation Fellow 1967. Literature Aw-ard, American Academy, of Arts and Letters 1978, Pulitzer.
(Are some of the world's most talented children's book aut...)
(Paul and Katherine a young couple newly arrived in Los An...)
(Polly Alter is 39, a failed artist whose marriage has col...)
(WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Virginia Miner, a fifty-so...)
(It often seems that the most gifted authors of books for ...)
(Considers why people wear what they wear. The author exam...)
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Author: (novels) Love and Friendship, 1962, The Nowhere City, 1966, Imaginary Friends, 1967, Real People, 1969, The War Between the Tates, 1974, Only Children, 1979, Foreign Affairs, 1979 (Pulitzer prize in fiction, 1985), The Truth About Lorin Jones, 1988 (Prix Femina Étranger, France, 1989), Women and Ghosts, 1994, (non-fiction) Don't Tell the Grownups: Subversive Children's Literature, 1990, The Language of Clothes, 1991, Familiar Spirits: A Memoir of James Merrill and David Jackson, 2001, Boys and Girls Forever, 2003, (collections of traditional folktales for children) The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales, 1975, Clever Grechen and Other Forgotten Fairy Tales, 1980. Co-editor: Garland Library of Children's Classics.
Member of American Academy of Arts and Letters (vice president since 2006, Literature award 1978).
Married Jonathon Peale Bishop in 1948 (divorced in 1985).