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Lore Segal

Biography

Lore Segal

Lore Segal was the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist SHAKESPEARE'S KITCHEN, as well as the novels HALF THE KINGDOM, LUCINELLA, OTHER PEOPLE'S HOUSES and HER FIRST AMERICAN. She was the recipient of the American Academy and the Institutes of Arts and Letters Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, The O'Henry Prize and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize. She wrote for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper's Magazine, The New Republic and numerous other publications. In 2022, Segal was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Science. She also wrote children's books and translated from the German. Segal passed away from heart failure in 2024 at the age of 96.

Lore Segal

Books by Lore Segal

by Lore Segal - Fiction, Short Stories

Lore Segal was a master of the short story, and this collection shows her in peak form. Profound, dark and often hilarious, Segal portrays her characters' foibles, eccentricities and passions with great compassion and exactness, as they grapple with life, aging and each other. Readers of LADIES' LUNCH will recognize the educated, urbane nonagenarian women who have been friends for a lifetime, as they tackle aging’s affronts with wit, grace and resourcefulness.