by Alison Lurie
Lurie officially retired from Cornell in 1998, but continues to teach and write. In 2012 she was named to a two-year term as the official New York State Author. She lives in Ithaca, New York, and is married to the writer Edward Hower. She has three grown sons and three grandchildren.
Lurie at age seven.
Lurie at age fourteen, wearing her first long party dress in preparation for dancing school.
Lurie and her dog, Sliver, in the backyard of her family’s home in White Plains, New York, in the summer of 1947. (Photo courtesy of Kroch Library.)
Lurie on the porch of her parents’ home in White Plains, New York, in the early spring of 1947.
Lurie with her husband, Edward Hower, in Key West, Florida, in 2008.
Lurie and Hower.
Lurie in 2009.
Lurie’s three sons, from left to right, John, Jeremy, and Joshua, in October 2011.
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copyright © 1988 by Alison Lurie
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978-1-4532-7122-3
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