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Alison Lurie

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Alison Lurie (born September 3, 1926) is an American novelist and academic. [1]

34 relations: American Academy of Arts and Letters, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amherst College, Chicago, Cornell University, David Lodge (author), David Noyes Jackson, Foreign Affairs (novel), Gertrude Stein, James Merrill, Jane Austen, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Key West, Kingsley Amis, Monika Beisner, NBC, Prix Femina, Prix Femina étranger, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Radcliffe College, Rockefeller Foundation, Semiotics of dress, Television film, Thames Television, The New York Review of Books, The War Between the Tates, Thomas More, University of Nottingham, University of Oxford, Utopia, W. W. Norton & Company, White Plains, New York, Yaddo.

American Academy of Arts and Letters

The American Academy of Arts and Letters is a 250-member honor society; its goal is to "foster, assist, and sustain excellence" in American literature, music, and art.

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States of America.

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Amherst College

Amherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Cornell University

Cornell University is a private and statutory Ivy League research university located in Ithaca, New York.

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David Lodge (author)

David John Lodge CBE (born 28 January 1935) is an English author and literary critic.

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David Noyes Jackson

David Noyes Jackson (September 16, 1922 – July 13, 2001) was the life partner of poet James Merrill (1926–1995).

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Foreign Affairs (novel)

Foreign Affairs is a 1984 novel by Alison Lurie, which concerns itself with American academics in England.

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Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector.

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James Merrill

For the South Carolina politician see James Merrill (politician) James Ingram Merrill (March 3, 1926 – February 6, 1995) was an American poet.

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Jane Austen

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.

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John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation was founded in 1925 by Olga and Simon Guggenheim in memory of their son, who died on April 26, 1922.

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Key West

Key West (Cayo Hueso) is an island and city in the Straits of Florida on the North American continent, at the southwesternmost end of the roadway through the Florida Keys in the state of Florida, United States.

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Kingsley Amis

Sir Kingsley William Amis, CBE (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher.

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Monika Beisner

Monika Beisner (born 1942 in Hamburg) is a German artist and book illustrator.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Prix Femina

The Prix Femina is a French literary prize created in 1904 by 22 writers for the magazine La Vie heureuse (today known as Femina).

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Prix Femina étranger

The prix Femina étranger is a French literary award established in 1985.

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Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States.

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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.

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Radcliffe College

Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and functioned as a female coordinate institution for the all-male Harvard College.

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Rockefeller Foundation

The Rockefeller Foundation is a private foundation based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City.

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Semiotics of dress

The semiotics of dress is a term used to refer to the design and customs associated with dress (clothing), as patterned to a kind of symbolism that has rules and norms.

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Television film

A television film (also known as a TV movie, TV film, television movie, telefilm, telemovie, made-for-television movie, made-for-television film, direct-to-TV movie, direct-to-TV film, movie of the week, feature-length drama, single drama and original movie) is a feature-length motion picture that is produced for, and originally distributed by or to, a television network, in contrast to theatrical films, which are made explicitly for initial showing in movie theaters.

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Thames Television

Thames Television was a franchise holder for a region of the British ITV television network serving London and surrounding area on weekdays from 30 July 1968 until the night of 31 December 1992.

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The New York Review of Books

The New York Review of Books (or NYREV or NYRB) is a semi-monthly magazine with articles on literature, culture, economics, science and current affairs.

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The War Between the Tates

The War Between the Tates is a campus novel by Alison Lurie that takes place at an elite university during the upheavals of the late 1960s and gently and deftly skewers all sides in the turmoils and conflicts of that era — opposition to the Vietnam war, the start of the feminist movement, the generation gap, sexual liberation, experimentation with drugs, and student unrest.

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Thomas More

Sir Thomas More (7 February 14786 July 1535), venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist.

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University of Nottingham

The University of Nottingham is a public research university in Nottingham, United Kingdom.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford (formally The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford) is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England.

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Utopia

A utopia is an imagined community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities for its citizens.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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White Plains, New York

White Plains is a city in Westchester County, New York, United States.

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Yaddo

Yaddo is an artists' community located on a estate in Saratoga Springs, New York.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_Lurie

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