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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><b>Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist
to read from her works</b> <br>
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Pulitzer prize-winning novelist Alison Lurie will deliver the Betsy
Beinecke Shirley Lecture in American Children's Literature on Thursday,
April 29. <br>
Lurie will speak on "Good Bad Boys: Pinnochio and Tom Sawyer"
at 4 p.m. in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 121 Wall St.
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The event is free and the public is invited to attend. <br>
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In addition to writing novels, Lurie has published a collection of ghost
stories, "Women and Ghosts"; a book on the psychology of
fashion, "The Language of Clothes"; and a two collection of
essays on children's literature and folklore, "Don't Tell the
Grownups" and "Boys and Girls Forever." <br>
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Lurie's novel "Foreign Affairs," which won the 1984 Pulitzer
Prize, takes place in London and relates the adventures of two American
academics abroad. The novel was made into a film for television starring
Joanne Woodward and Brian Denehey. "The Truth About Lorin
Jones," which won the Prix Femina Etranger in France, chronicles the
adventures of a biographer who is researching the life of a famous woman
painter. <br>
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Lurie is also the author of three collections of traditional folktales
for children, and was co-editor of the 73-volume Garland Library of
Children's Classics. Since 1970, she has taught literature, folklore and
writing at Cornell University. </blockquote><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>For more information contact
Timothy Young: Timothy.young@yale.edu, or 432-8131</blockquote><br>
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Nancy Kuhl<br>
Assistant Curator, The Yale Collection of American Literature<br>
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library<br>
Yale University<br>
121 Wall Street<br>
P.O. Box 208240<br>
New Haven, CT 06520-8240<br>
Phone: 203.432.2966 <br>
Fax: 203.432.4047</html>