Alison Lurie was born in Chicago in 1926 and graduated from Radcliffe College in 1947 with a degree in history and literature. She taught English at Cornell University for many years.
She is best known for witty novels of manners. Foreign Affairs (1984) won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She also wrote nonfiction on children's literature and on the language of clothing. She died in Ithaca, New York, in 2020.
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