Lore Vailer Segal was an Austrian American novelist, translator, teacher, short story writer, and author of children’s books. Her novel Shakespeare’s Kitchen was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2008.
Books in order of publication:
Other People’s Houses – 1964
Tell Me a Mitzi – 1970
All the Way Home – 1973
Lucinella: A Novel – 1976
Tell Me a Trudy – 1977
The Story of Old Mrs. Brubeck and How She Looked for Trouble and Where She Found Him – 1981
Her First American: A Novel – 1985
The Story of Mrs. Lovewright and Purrless Her Cat – 1985
Morris the Artist – 2003
Why Mole Shouted and Other Stories – 2004
More Mole Stories and Little Gopher, Too
Shakespeare’s Kitchen – 2007
Half the Kingdom – 2013
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