Person Detail: Alison Lurie

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General Information:
Full Name: Alison Lurie
Biography: (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.
Author's Timeline:
1926		(Unknown) County Alison Stewart Lurie was born in Chicago, Illinois, on September 3, 1926.
1930		Westchester County As a child, Ms. Lurie lived in White Plains, New York, in about the 1930s.
1962		(Unknown) County Love and Friendship (Pub: Macmillan ISBN: 0434439010 / 978-0434439010 ) Novel.
1994		(Unknown) County Women and Ghosts (Pub: Nan A. Talese ISBN: 0385473923 / 978-0385473927) Stories.
1967		(Unknown) County Imaginary Friends (Pub: Coward-Mccann, Inc. ISBN: 0434439002 / 978-0434439003 ) Novel.
1980		(Unknown) County Clever Gretchen and Other Forgotten Folktales (Pub: Harpercollins ISBN: 0690039441 / 978-0690039443 ) Children's book.
1981		(Unknown) County The Language of Clothes (Pub: Random House ISBN: 0394513029 / 978-0394513027 ) Nonfiction.
1990		(Unknown) County Don't Tell the Grown-Ups: The Subversive Power of Children's Literature (Pub: Little Brown & Company ISBN: 0316537223 / 978-0316537223 ) Criticism.
2003		(Unknown) County Boys and Girls Forever: Children's Classics from Cinderella to Harry Potter (Pub: Chatto & Windus ISBN: 1422357740 / 978-1422357743 ) Criticism.
2001		(Unknown) County Familiar Spirits: A Memoir of James Merrill and David Jackson (Pub: Viking Adult ISBN: 0670894591 / 978-0670894598 ) Memoir.
1970		Tompkins County Ms. Lurie taught at Cornell University in the 1970s.
1974		(Unknown) County The War Between the Tates (Pub: Random House ISBN: 0394462017 / 978-0394462011 ) Novel.
1984		(Unknown) County Foreign Affairs (Pub: Random House ISBN: 039454076X / 978-0394540764 ) Novel, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1985.
2020		Tompkins County Alison Lurie died at a hospice center in Ithaca, New York, on December 3, 2020.
2012		(Unknown) County 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.