Alison Lurie

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Born	September 3, 1926 • Chicago • Illinois
Died	December 3, 2020 (aged 94) • Ithaca • New York
Awards And Honors	Pulitzer Prize
Notable Works	“Clever Gretchen and Other Forgotten Folktales • “Fabulous Beasts” • “Foreign Affairs” • “Heavenly Zoo: Legends and Tales of the Stars, The” • “Imaginary Friends” • “Love and Friendship” • “Only Children” • “Real People” • “The Last Resort” • “The Nowhere City” • “The Truth About Lorin Jones” • “The War Between the Tates” • “Truth and Consequences” • “Women and Ghosts”

Leon Edel

American critic and biographer

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton

American writer

Constance Lindsay Skinner

American writer and historian

Alice Walker

Alice Walker

American writer

John Updike

John Updike

American author

John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck

American novelist

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

American author

William Kennedy

American author and journalist

A.B. Guthrie, Jr.

American writer

Jean Stafford

American writer

Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

American author

John Grisham

John Grisham

American writer

David Sedaris

David Sedaris

American humorist and essayist

Ana Castillo

Ana Castillo

American poet and author

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

American author

Travel to Frank Stockton's contemporary world in a production of the short story “The Lady, or the Tiger?”

Frank Stockton

American novelist

Esther Forbes

American author

Carl Sandburg.

Carl Sandburg

American poet and historian

E.B. White

American writer

William Faulkner

William Faulkner

American author

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