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.
Books in order of publication:
Novels
Love and Friendship (1962)
The Nowhere City (1966)
Imaginary Friends (1967)
Real People (1969)
The War Between the Tates (1974)
Only Children (1979)
Foreign Affairs (1984)
The Truth About Lorin Jones (1988)
Women and Ghosts (1994)
The Last Resort (1998)
Truth and Consequences (2005)
Children’s collections
The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales (1975)
Clever Gretchen and Other Forgotten Folktales (1980)
Fabulous Beasts
The Heavenly Zoo
The Black Geese
The Cat Agent (2023)
Non-fiction
The Language of Clothes (1981)
Don’t Tell the Grown-Ups (1990)
Familiar Spirits (2001)
Boys and Girls Forever (2003)
The Language of Houses: How Buildings Speak to Us (2014)
Words and Worlds: From Autobiographies to Zippers (2019)
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