Judie Newman (essay date 2000)
SOURCE: Newman, Judie. “Biographical Introduction.” In Alison Lurie: A Critical Study, pp. 4-27. Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 2000.
[In the following essay, Newman provides an overview of Lurie's early life and education, her formative experiences with the Poets' Theatre, the origin of recurring themes and characters in her fiction, and the inadequacies of her critical appraisal.]
When Alison Lurie was first a student at Radcliffe, only one class in creative writing was available, taught by Robert Hillyer, a...
Source: Contemporary Literary Criticism, ©2003 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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