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Line 4: | name = Lore Segal | nationality = Austrian–American | birth_name = Lore Vailer Groszmann | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1928|3|9}} | birth_place = [[Vienna]], Austria | death_date = {{death date and age|2024|10|7|1928|3|9}} | death_place = | spouse = {{marriage|David Segal|1961|1970|end=d}} | children = 2 Line 14: | education = [[University of London]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]]) }} '''Lore Vailer Segal''' ( ==Early life== An only child, Segal was born on March 8, 1928, in [[Vienna]], Austria, into a middle-class Jewish family. Her father was a chief bank accountant and her mother was a housewife.<ref name = Green>{{cite news|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/07/books/lore-segal-dead.html|title = Lore Segal, Mordant Memoirist of Émigré Life, Dies at 96|last = Green|first = Penelope|date = October 7, 2024|accessdate = October 7, 2024|newspaper = [[The New York Times]]|url-access = limited}}</ref> When Hitler annexed Austria in 1938, Segal's father found himself jobless and threatened. He listed the family on the American immigration quota, and in December that year Lore Segal joined other Jewish children on the first wave of the [[Kindertransport]] rescue mission, seeking safety in England."<ref name="jewishhistory">{{Cite web|url=https://access.cjh.org/home.php?type=extid&term=413699#1|title=AHC Interview with Lore Segal — CJH Digital Collections|date=2009|last=Segal|first=Lore|publisher=Center for Jewish History|language=en|access-date=12 March 2020}}</ref> Line 25: On her eleventh birthday, her parents arrived in England on a domestic servants visa. Despite his refugee status, Lore Segal's father 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. Lore Segal then moved to London with her mother, where she would attend 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 : 1897-2009 [bulk 1939-1990]|website=archives.nypl.org|access-date=12 March 2020|quote= After the War, she attended Bedford College, University of London, and in 1948 received a degree in English literature. [...]In May 1951, she and much of her family emigrated to New York City. }}</ref> 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. ==Career== 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 currently teaches 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=12 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040508061108/http://www.loresegal.net/|archive-date=8 May 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 five different English households, from the wealthy Orthodox Jewish Levines to the working-class Hoopers. 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". 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. Her 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=22 May 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=26 October 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''). Line 45: Segal and her mother, Franzi Groszmann, appeared in the films ''My Knees Were Jumping; Remembering the Kindertransports'' (1996), directed by Melissa Hacker, which was short-listed for Academy Award nomination, and ''[[Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport]]'', directed by [[Mark Jonathan Harris]] and produced by [[Deborah Oppenheimer]], which won the [[Academy Award for Documentary Feature]] in 2001. Segal's mother was the last survivor of the parents who placed their children in the Kindertransport program. Franzi died in 2005, one hundred years old.<ref name="martin2005">{{Cite news|last=Martin|first=Douglas|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/02/nyregion/franzi-groszmann-100-dies-sent-daughter-from-nazi-lands.html|title=Franzi Groszmann, 100, Dies; Sent Daughter From Nazi Lands|date=2005-10-02|work=The New York Times|access-date=2020-03-12|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Segal lived on the [[Upper West Side]] of [[Manhattan]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://qconline.com/life/author-lore-segal-is-still-in-love-with-the-world/article_de85c849-35da-585d-be01-633ac5789198.html|title=Author Lore Segal is still in love with the world|last=Italie|first=Hillel|website=Dispatch-Argus-QCOnline|date=May 22, 2011 |language=en|access-date=2019-04-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190414031720/https://qconline.com/life/author-lore-segal-is-still-in-love-with-the-world/article_de85c849-35da-585d-be01-633ac5789198.html|archive-date=14 April 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> She died at home on October 7, 2024.<ref ==Work== Line 127 ⟶ 125: {{DEFAULTSORT:Segal, Lore}} [[Category:1928 births]] [[Category: [[Category:20th-century American novelists]] [[Category:20th-century American short story writers]] | |||