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Lore Segal

3.7/5 ( ratings)
Born
March 08 1928
Lore Segal was born in Vienna in 1928. In 1938, she arrived in England as one of the thousands of Jewish children brought out of Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia by the Kindertransport and lived with several foster families in succession. She graduated from the University of London and, after a sojourn in Trujillo's Dominican Republic, came to New York City. She married the editor David Segal with whom she has two children. David Segal died in 1970. She has taught at a number of colleges and universities, currently at the Ninety-Second Street Y.

Her four works of fiction are Other People's Houses , Lucinella , Her First American , and Shakespeare's Kitchen . She has also published translations and numerous books for children. She is working on a new book, And If They Have Not Died.

A finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Segal has won a Guggenheim Fellowship, two PENO/O. Henry Awards, the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award, and a fellowship at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Segal has also written for the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, the New Republic, and Harper's Magazine, among others. She lives in New York City.

Information sources: Wikipedia | Bookslut Interview from December 2011 | Book "Other People's Houses"

Lore Segal

3.7/5 ( ratings)
Born
March 08 1928
Lore Segal was born in Vienna in 1928. In 1938, she arrived in England as one of the thousands of Jewish children brought out of Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia by the Kindertransport and lived with several foster families in succession. She graduated from the University of London and, after a sojourn in Trujillo's Dominican Republic, came to New York City. She married the editor David Segal with whom she has two children. David Segal died in 1970. She has taught at a number of colleges and universities, currently at the Ninety-Second Street Y.

Her four works of fiction are Other People's Houses , Lucinella , Her First American , and Shakespeare's Kitchen . She has also published translations and numerous books for children. She is working on a new book, And If They Have Not Died.

A finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Segal has won a Guggenheim Fellowship, two PENO/O. Henry Awards, the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award, and a fellowship at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Segal has also written for the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, the New Republic, and Harper's Magazine, among others. She lives in New York City.

Information sources: Wikipedia | Bookslut Interview from December 2011 | Book "Other People's Houses"

Books from Lore Segal

Shakespeare's Kitchen

3.1/5 ( ratings)

The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Her First American

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Lucinella

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Half the Kingdom

2.7/5 ( ratings)

Tell Me a Mitzi

4.3/5 ( ratings)

The Story of Mrs. Lovewright and Purrless Her Cat

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Morris the Artist

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Tell Me a Trudy

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Ladies’ Lunch

3.4/5 ( ratings)

All the Way Home

3.4/5 ( ratings)

The story of old Mrs. Brubeck and how she looked for trouble and where she found him

3.4/5 ( ratings)

The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Dandelion

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Ladies' Lunch: and Other Stories

3.4/5 ( ratings)

The Book of Adam to Moses

3.4/5 ( ratings)

En casas ajenas

3.4/5 ( ratings)

More Mole Stories and Little Gopher, Too

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Other People's Houses

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Bomb: The Author Interviews

3.4/5 ( ratings)
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