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Legendary Praise

“One of this country's most able and witty novelists.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Warm, clever, funny” —Times Literary Supplement (London)

“Alison Lurie’s fiction will outlast that of many currently more fashionable names. There is no American writer I have read with more constant pleasure and sympathy over the years.” —John Fowles

Recommended Reading

Foreign Affairs Foreign Affairs

Random House, New York, 1984

The War Between The Tates The War Between The Tates

Random House, New York, 1974

The Truth About Lorin Jones The Truth About Lorin Jones

Little, Brown and Company, 1988

The Last Resort The Last Resort

Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1998

The Nowhere City The Nowhere City

Coward-McCann, New York, 1966

Recently In The News

Remembering Alison - The American Scholar | By Anne Beattie, April 10, 2023

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Foreign Affairs is a perfect literary rom-com - Literary Hub | By Jessie Gaynor, September 3, 2021

Remembering Alison Lurie: In her words - New York State Writers Institute, December 4, 2020

The Language of Alison Lurie - Delphium Books | December 4, 2020