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04.12.2020 / 03:59
Alison Lurie, prize winning novelist, dead at 94
NEW YORK -- Alison Lurie, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist whose satirical and cerebral tales of love and academia included the marital saga “The War Between the Tates” and the comedy of Americans abroad “Foreign Affairs,” died Thursday at age 94.Lurie, a professor emerita at Cornell University, died of natural causes, according to her husband and partner, Edward Hower.Praised by The New York Times as one of the country's “most able and witty novelists,” Lurie broke through commercially in