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Brief Biography After Hitler’s take over of Austria, the Children’s Transport brought ten-year-old Lore from her native Vienna to England, where she lived with a number of foster families. After receiving her B.A. English Honors from the University of London in 1948, she went to the Dominican Republic until her American quota allowed her to come to New York in May 1951. Between 1968 and 1978 she taught writing at Columbia University's School of the Arts, Princeton, Bennington College, Sarah Lawrence, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Ohio State University from which she retired in 1996. Lore Segal has worked as novelist, essayist, translator, and writer of children’s books. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and grants from the National Endowments for the Arts, and the Humanities. Her reviews appear in the New York Times Book Review and her stories in the New Yorker. Her stories have been included in Best American Short Stories, and the O.Henry Prize Stories. Lore Segal's novels include Other People's Houses, originally serialized in The New Yorker, Lucinella (recently republished by Melville House) Her First American, which won an award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and Shakespeare’s Kitchen, one of three finalists for the 2009 Pulitzer. |
HonorsDorothy & Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars Fellowship, 2008 Pulitzer Prize Finalist (Shakespeare's Kitchen, 2008) PEN/O. Henry Prize Story, 2008 ("Making Good") Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2006 Best American Short Story, 1989 ("The Reverse Bug") The O. Henry Awards Prize Story, 1990 ("The Reverse Bug") University of Illinois, Senior University Scholar, 1987-1990 National Endowment for the Arts, Grant in Fiction, 1987-1988 American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award, 1986 Harold U. Ribalow Prize, 1986 Carl Sandburg Award for Fiction, 1985 Artists Grant, The Illinois Arts Council, 1985 Grawemeyer Award for Faculty, University of Louisville, 1983 National Endowment for the Humanities, Grant in Translation, 1982 National Endowment for the Arts, Grant for Fiction, 1972-1973 Creative Artists Public Service Program of New York State, 1972-1973 American Library Association Notable Book selection (Tell Me a Mitzie, 1970) National Council on the Arts and Humanities Grant, 1967-1968 Guggenheim Fellowship, 1965-1966 -- |
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