Lurie, Alison

Alison Lurie (b. 1926) is a Pulitzer Prize winning author of fiction and nonfiction. Born in Chicago and raised in White Plains, New York, she joined the English department at Cornell University in 1970, where she taught courses on children s literature, among others. Her first novel, "Love and Friendship"(1962), is a story of romance and deception among the faculty of a snowbound New England college. It won favorable reviews and established her as a keen observer of love in academia. It was followed by the well-received"The Nowhere City"(1966) and"The War Between the Tates"(1974). In 1984, sh...