12 Facts About Alison Lurie

Alison Stewart Lurie was an American novelist and academic.

Alison Lurie won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her 1984 novel Foreign Affairs.

Alison Stewart Lurie was born on September 3,1926, in Chicago, and raised in White Plains, New York.

Alison Lurie's father Harry Lawrence Lurie was a sociologist, and her mother Bernice Lurie was a journalist and book critic.

Alison Lurie's father was born in Latvia and her mother was born in Scotland.

Alison Lurie's father was the first executive director of the National Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds.

Alison Lurie attended a boarding school in Darien, Connecticut, and graduated from Radcliffe College of Harvard University in 1947 with a bachelor's degree in history and literature.

Bishop later taught at Amherst College and Cornell University, and Alison Lurie moved along with him.

Alison Lurie spent part of her time in Hampstead, London; part in Ithaca, New York; and part in Key West, Florida.

In 1970, Alison Lurie began to teach in the English department at Cornell, where she was tenured in 1979.

Alison Lurie died from natural causes while under hospice care in Ithaca on December 3,2020, at age 94.

Alison Lurie noted that her writing was grounded in a "desire to laugh at things".