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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. Although better known as a novelist, she wrote many non-fiction books and articles, particularly on children's literature and the semiotics of dress .
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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...
Dec 4, 2020 · By Daniel Aloi David Nutt. December 4, 2020. Facebook Twitter Email Share. 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.
About Alison Lurie. 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 ...
Apr 19, 2024 · 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). Learn more about Lurie’s life and career.
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“There's much to absorb in this sequel to Alison Lurie's The Language of Clothes, but The Language of Houses is an extraordinarily absorbing book—it wears its learning lightly, holding this reader's attention the way a fine novel does. I was particularly fascinated by the linked chapters on religious buildings and museums.”
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