An obituary of Alison Lurie, Frederic J. Whiton Professor of American Literature Emerita, ran in the New York Times:
"Alison Lurie, Tart-Voiced Novelist of Manners, Dies at 94
"Alison Lurie, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer whose mordant novels punctured pretension, deflated dogma and illuminated the staggering talent of smart people for self-deception, died on Thursday at a hospice center in Ithaca, N.Y. She was 94."
Read the full article here.
Photograph of Alison Lurie teaching in 1977. Credit: Cornell University Photography.