Alison Lurie

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Alison Lurie (born September 3, 1926 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American writer and literary scholar .

Life

Alison Lurie grew up in White Plains, New York . She attended Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts , where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and history in 1947 . In 1948 she married Jonathan Peale Bishop Jr., with whom she had three sons. The marriage ended in divorce in 1985. During her time as a housewife, she published her first novels . From 1969 to 1973 she was a lecturer , from 1973 to 1976 deputy associate professor , from 1976 to 1979 associate professor and from 1979 until her retirement1998 Professor of American Literature at Cornell University in Ithaca , New York . She is now married to the writer Edward Hower and has children and grandchildren. Even in old age, she occasionally worked as a literary critic, who continued to contribute to The New York Review of Books . Her book Reading for Fun (2017) testifies to this.

As a university teacher, Alison Lurie dealt, among other things, with the oral tradition among children and with children's literature . With The language of clothes she showed herself to be a semiotic of feminine everyday life. In her narrative works she has provided an impressive, psychologically coherent and always humorous picture of the family life of the American middle class and members of the East Coast intelligentsia. In her narrative and style, she has often been compared to Jane Austen .

Awards

In 1963, 1964, and 1966 Lurie received a Yaddo Foundation Fellowship , a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1965 , a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1968, a New York Council on the Arts Fellowship in 1972 , the American Academy Award in 1979 , and the Pulitzer Prize for her novel in 1985 "Foreign affairs", 1989 the French Prix ​​Femina Étranger for "The truth about Lorin Jones". Lurie was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1989 and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005 .

Works

  • VR long. A Memoir , Munich 1959
  • Love and friendship , New York 1962
  • The nowhere city , New York 1965
  • Imaginary friends , New York 1967
  • Real people , New York 1969
  • The war between the Tates , New York 1974
  • The heavenly zoo , New York 1979
  • Only children , New York 1979
  • Clever Gretchen and other forgotten folktales , New York 1980
  • Fabulous beasts , New York 1981
  • The language of clothes , New York 1981
  • Foreign affairs , New York 1984
  • The truth about Lorin Jones , Boston 1988
  • Don't tell the grown-ups , Boston 1990
  • Women and ghosts , New York 1994
  • The last resort , New York 1998
  • The black geese , New York 1999
  • Familiar spirits , New York 2001
  • Boys and girls forever , New York 2003
  • Truth and Consequences , New York 2005
  • Reading for Fun , New York 2017

Editing

  • Frances Hodgson Burnett : The secret garden , New York 1999
  • The Oxford book of modern fairy tales , Oxford [u. a.] 1993

German translations

  • Family War , Frankfurt am Main 1976 (translated by Hermann Stiehl), also a very private little war , engl. The War Between The Tates
  • About the salamander who lives in fire and other mythical animals , Frankfurt am Main 1981 (translated by Ingrid Westerhoff)
  • Affären , Zurich 1986 (translated by Otto Bayer), engl. Foreign Affairs
  • Love and friendship , Zurich 1987 (translated by Otto Bayer), engl. Love and Friendship
  • Varna or Imaginary Friends , Zurich 1988 (translated by Otto Bayer), engl. Imaginary Friends
  • The truth about Lorin Jones , Zurich 1990 (translated by Otto Bayer), engl. The Truth about Lorin Jones
  • Nowhere city , Zurich 1991 (translated by Otto Bayer), engl. The Nowhere City
  • From children and people , Zurich 1994 (translated by Otto Bayer), engl. Only Children
  • Women and phantoms , stories, Zurich 1996 (translated by Otto Bayer), engl. Women and Ghosts
  • Summer in Key West , Zurich 2000 (translated by Hans-Christian Oeser ), engl. The Last Resort
  • Couples (2008), engl. Truth and Consequences

Film adaptations

  • 1977: The War Between The Tates (NBC TV movie)
  • 1993: Foreign Affairs - with Joanne Woodward

literature

  • Richard Hauer Costa: Alison Lurie . Twayne et al., New York NY et al. 1992, ISBN 0-8057-7634-6 , ( Twayne's United States authors series 602).
  • David Barker: Imaginary readers. The novels of Alison Lurie . University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne 1998, (University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Theses. Ph. D. 1998).
  • Judie Newman: Alison Lurie. A critical study . Rodopi, Amsterdam et al. 2000, ISBN 90-420-1222-6 , ( Costerus NS 127).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 17, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter L. (PDF; 1.1 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved January 17, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Lurie, Alison
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois