WRITER

Alison Lurie

1926 - 2020

Photo of Alison Lurie

Icon of person Alison Lurie

Alison Stewart Lurie (September 3, 1926 – December 3, 2020) was an American novelist and academic. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her 1984 novel Foreign Affairs. Although better known as a novelist, she wrote many non-fiction books and articles, particularly on children's literature and the semiotics of dress. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alison Lurie is the 5,448th most popular writer (up from 5,678th in 2019), the 8,578th most popular biography from United States (up from 8,667th in 2019) and the 635th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

Loading...

Page views of Alison Lurie by language

Loading...

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alison Lurie ranks 5,448 out of 7,302. Before her are William Cobbett, Robert Christgau, Rafael Cadenas, Jeanne Dumée, Francis Carco, and Cynthia McLeod. After her are Nikolai Pogodin, Walter J. Ong, János Pilinszky, Aquilino Ribeiro, Sax Rohmer, and Albert Engström.

Most Popular Writers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Alison Lurie ranks 403. Before her are Herschell Gordon Lewis, Frank O'Hara, Giovanni Invernizzi, Tapio Mäkelä, Géza Kádas, and Rafael Azcona. After her are Robert Bly, Georgi Yumatov, Ken Olsen, Bob Benny, Robert Jay Lifton, and James Best. Among people deceased in 2020, Alison Lurie ranks 547. Before her are Cabeção, Willi Holdorf, Aleksandr Aksinin, Fritz d'Orey, Norman I. Platnick, and Ali Bozer. After her are Nelly Kaplan, Pedro Pablo León, William Yorzyk, Rodolfo Fischer, James Drury, and Isabel-Clara Simó.

Others Born in 1926

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 2020

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In United States

Among people born in United States, Alison Lurie ranks 8,580 out of 20,380. Before her are Arliss Howard (1954), Robert John Burke (1960), Chelsea Clinton (1980), Jiah Khan (1988), Kyle Eastwood (1968), and Yvonne Rainer (1934). After her are Frankie Lymon (1942), Barbara Morgan (1951), Toni Frissell (1907), Edwin Graves (1897), Frederick Hovey (1868), and Sarah Palfrey Cooke (1912).

Others born in United States

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Alison Lurie ranks 635. Before her are Eve Ensler (1953), John Holt (1923), Robert Coover (1932), Fran Lebowitz (1950), Chaim Potok (1929), and Robert Christgau (1942). After her are Walter J. Ong (1912), Robert Bly (1926), Holly Black (1971), Max Eastman (1883), Dorothy Allison (1949), and Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884).

American born Writers

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous