[Yale-readings] Alison Lurie Reading Thursday, April 29, Beinecke

[Nancy Kuhl]

>Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist to read from her works
>
>Pulitzer prize-winning novelist Alison Lurie will deliver the Betsy 
>Beinecke Shirley Lecture in American Children's Literature on Thursday, 
>April 29.
>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.
>The event is free and the public is invited to attend.
>
>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."
>
>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.
>
>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.

>For more information contact Timothy Young: Timothy.young at yale.edu, or 
>432-8131


Nancy Kuhl
Assistant Curator, The Yale Collection of American Literature
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Yale University
121 Wall Street
P.O. Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520-8240
Phone: 203.432.2966
Fax: 203.432.4047
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