15 Facts About Lore Segal

Lore Vailer Segal was an Austrian-American novelist, translator, teacher, short story writer, and author of children's books.

Lore Segal was the author of five novels, and was known for her autobiographical fiction, drawing on her life as an Austrian Jewish refugee who fled to the United Kingdom as a child, growing up in England before settling in the United States.

Lore Segal's fourth novel, Shakespeare's Kitchen, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2008.

An only child, Lore Vailer Groszmann was born on March 8,1928, in Vienna, Austria, into a middle-class Jewish family.

Lore Segal's father, Ignatz, was a chief bank accountant and her mother, Franziska was a housewife.

Lore Segal graduated in 1948 with an honours degree in English literature.

Between 1968 and 1996, Lore Segal taught writing at Columbia University's School of the Arts, Princeton, Bennington College, Sarah Lawrence, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Ohio State University, from which she retired in 1996.

Lore Segal published her first novel, Other People's Houses, in 1964 to widespread acclaim.

Lore Segal received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for the novel.

Lore Segal evokes the comic melancholy of the outsider and the ineffectual ambitions of a progressive, predominantly WASP-ish institution.

Lore Segal continued to write until the end of her life, authoring short stories in The New Yorker.

Lore Segal had a late flowering of success for the volume and continued writing 'Ladies Lunch' stories up until her last days.

Lore Segal had been writing continuously for the magazine since 1960.

Lore Segal's mother was the last survivor of the parents who placed their children in the Kindertransport program.

Lore Segal entered palliative care at her home after an apparent heart attack in June 2024, and died there from heart failure on October 7,2024, at the age of 96.