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Lore Segal

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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"

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Lore Segal

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Books from Lore Segal

Shakespeare's Kitchen

The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm

Her First American

Lucinella

Half the Kingdom

Tell Me a Mitzi

The Story of Mrs. Lovewright and Purrless Her Cat

Morris the Artist

Tell Me a Trudy

Ladies’ Lunch

All the Way Home

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

Dandelion

The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm

The Book of Adam to Moses

En casas ajenas

More Mole Stories and Little Gopher, Too

Other People's Houses

Bomb: The Author Interviews

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