biography
pronunciation:
[looree]
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| female
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| lived:
| (1926– )
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She studied at Radcliff College, and from 1968 taught at Cornell University, specializing in children's literature. She won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel Foreign Affairs (1985). Other novels include Imaginary Friends (1967), The War Between the Tates (1974), The Truth About Lorin Jones (1988), and The Last Resort (1998). |
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