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Lurie taught undergraduate courses in writing and folklore, as well as one of Cornell’s first children’s literature courses in the 1970s.

Whiton Professor of American Literature in the College of Arts and Sciences in 1989. An established author by the time she began teaching in the Department of English at Cornell in 1969, she was only the second woman awarded tenure in the department, and was named the F.J. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1947 and lived in Los Angeles from 1957 to 1961. 3, 1926, and raised in White Plains, New York. Alison was a dynamic and gifted teacher of writing, children’s literature and folklore.” “She was the first woman given tenure on the Creative Writing staff, setting a precedent for so many other women. “Cornell was extremely fortunate to have Alison Lurie on its faculty,” said Robert Morgan, the Kappa Alpha Professor of English. She was the author of 11 novels, including the 1985 Pulitzer Prize winner and National Book Award nominee “Foreign Affairs” “The Truth About Lorin Jones” (1988), winner of the Prix Femina Etranger “Truth and Consequences” (2005) and “The War Between the Tates” (1974).

Professor Emerita of English Alison Lurie, the award-winning and critically acclaimed writer who set some of her fiction on a campus with a striking similarity to Cornell’s, died Dec.