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Line 11: | spouse = {{marriage|David Segal|1961|1970|end=d}} | children = 2 | occupation = | period = 1964–2024 | education = [[University of London]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]]) }} Line 24 ⟶ 25: While with her English foster parents, she found a purple notebook and started writing, filling its 36 pages with German prose. It was the beginning of a novel she would eventually write in English, ''Other People's Houses''.<ref name="jewishhistory" /> On her eleventh birthday, her parents arrived in England on a domestic servants visa. Despite his refugee status, Ignatz Groszmann was labeled a German-speaking alien and interned on the [[History of the Isle of Man#Modern period|Isle of Man]],<ref name="martin2005" /> where he suffered a series of strokes. He died a few days before the war ended.<ref name = Shaer>{{cite news|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/06/magazine/lore-segal-writing-death.html|title = A Master Storyteller, at the End of Her Story|last = Shaer|first = Matthew|date = October 6, 2024|accessdate = October 7, 2024|magazine = [[The New York Times Magazine]]|url-access = limited}}</ref> Lore Groszmann and her mother then moved to London, where she attended the [[Bedford College (London)|Bedford College for Women]] at the [[University of London]] on a scholarship. She graduated in 1948 with an honors degree in English literature.<ref name="nypl2009">{{Cite web|url=http://archives.nypl.org/mss/18766|title=Lore Segal papers : In 1951, after spending three years in the [[Dominican Republic]] with her mother, waiting for their US entry permit to arrive, they moved to [[Washington Heights, Manhattan|Washington Heights]], New York City, where they shared a two-room apartment with her grandmother and uncle.<ref name = Green/> Line 33 ⟶ 34: Between 1968 and 1996, Segal taught writing at [[Columbia University]]'s School of the Arts, [[Princeton University|Princeton]], [[Bennington College]], [[Sarah Lawrence]], the [[University of Illinois at Chicago]], and [[Ohio State University]], from which she retired in 1996. She later taught at [[92nd Street Y|92 Y]].<ref name="segal">{{Cite web|url=https://www.mhpbooks.com/lore-segal/biography/|title=BIOGRAPHY — Lore Segal|website=www.loresegal.com|access-date=March 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040508061108/http://www.loresegal.net/|archive-date=May 8, 2004|url-status=live}}</ref> Segal published her first novel, ''Other People's Houses'', in 1964 to widespread acclaim.<ref name = Green/> Collecting her refugee stories from ''The New Yorker'' and writing a few more, Segal fictionalized her experience growing up in In 1985, Segal's third novel ''Her First American'' was published,<ref name = Green/> which ''The New York Times'' praised, saying, "Lore Segal may have come closer than anyone to writing The Great American Novel." It tells the story of Ilka Weissnix, a Jewish refugee from Nazi Europe, and her relationship with Carter Bayoux, a middle-aged black intellectual, "her first American".<ref name = Green/> Segal based the character of Carter Bayoux on her friend [[Horace R. Cayton, Jr.]] She received an [[American Academy of Arts and Letters]] Award for the novel. ''Shakespeare's Kitchen'', published in 2007, was a finalist for the [[Pulitzer Prize]].<ref name = Green/> Thirteen stories make up the novel, each following members of the Concordance Institute, a Connecticut think tank. Line 41 ⟶ 42: Her last novel ''Half the Kingdom'' was published by Melville House in October 2013.<ref name = Green/> Regarding her work, Segal said, "I want to write about the stuff – in the midst of all the stew of being a human being – that is permanent, where Adam and Eve and I would have had the same experiences. I really am less interested in the social change."<ref name="italie2011">{{Cite news|date=May 22, 2011|first=Hillel|last=Italie|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131026191706/http://onlineathens.com/stories/052211/liv_832913011.shtml|title=Author Lore Segal is still in love with the world {{!}} Online Athens|publisher=[[Athens Banner-Herald]]|archive-date=October 26, 2013|url=http://onlineathens.com/stories/052211/liv_832913011.shtml|url-status=dead}}</ref> Her novels often deal with the process of assimilation, from a refugee arriving in a new country which must become her home (as in ''Her First American''), to a flighty poet finding her footing in a constantly moving literary world (as in ''Lucinella'').<ref name = Green/> Segal continued to write until the end of her life, authoring short stories in ''[[The New Yorker]]''; the last one, authored by dictation as her health declined, was published online eight days before her death.<ref name = Shaer/><ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/lore-segal|title = Lore Segal|website = [[The New Yorker]]|accessdate = October 7, 2024}}</ref ==Personal life and death== Line 59 ⟶ 60: * {{cite book|title = Shakespeare's Kitchen|year = 2007|publisher = [[W. W. Norton & Company]]|isbn = 9781595581518}} * {{cite book|title = Half The Kingdom|year = 2013|publisher = [[Melville House]]|isbn = 9781612193021}} <!-- Uncited and apparently incomplete ===Short stories=== *"Burglars in the Flesh" (1980) *"A Wedding" (1981) *"The First American" (1983) *"An Absence of Cousins" (1987) *"The Reverse Bug" (1989) *"At Whom the Dog Barks" (1990) *"William's Shoes" (1991) *"Fatal Wish" (1991) *"Other People's Deaths" (2006) *"The Arbus Factor" (2007) *"Making Good" (2008) *"Spry for Frying" (2011) *"Ladies' Lunch" (2017) --> ===Translations=== Line 96 ⟶ 113: *National Council on the Arts and Humanities Grant, [https://www.arts.gov/sites/default/files/NEA-Annual-Report-1968.pdf 1967–1968] *Guggenheim Fellowship, 1965–1966 ==References==▼ {{Reflist}}▼ == External links == Line 107 ⟶ 127: * [https://www.newyorker.com/books/this-week-in-fiction/lore-segal-03-25-19 Lore Segal on Memory as the Writer's Notebook] "The New Yorker," March 18, 2019 * [https://player.fm/series/the-new-yorker-the-writers-voice-new-fiction-from-the-new-yorker-1283677/lore-segal-reads-dandelionLore Lore Segal Reads Dandelion] "The New Yorker, March 25, 2019 ▲==References== ▲{{Reflist}} {{Authority control}} | |||