Alison Lurie

Alison Lurie
Alison Lurie in 1981
BornAlison Stewart Lurie
(1926-09-03)September 3, 1926
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
DiedDecember 3, 2020(2020-12-03) (aged 94)
Ithaca, New York, U.S.
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • academic
EducationHarvard University (BA)
Period1962–2020
Notable awardsPulitzer Prize for Fiction (1985)
Spouse
Jonathan Bishop
(m. 1948; div. 1985)

Edward Hower
Children3

Alison Stewart Lurie (September 3, 1926  December 3, 2020) was an American novelist and academic. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her 1984 novel Foreign Affairs. Although better known as a novelist, she wrote many non-fiction books and articles, particularly on children's literature and the semiotics of dress.