Alison Lurie, Tart-Voiced Novelist of Manners, Dies at 94 – The New York Times

Alison Lurie, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer whose mordant novels punctured pretension, deflated dogma and illuminated the staggering talent of smart people for self-deception, died on Thursday at a hospice center in Ithaca, N.Y. She was 94.

The death was confirmed by her husband, Edward Hower.

Ms. Lurie, who was also a folklorist, a writer and scholar of children s literature and a longtime Cornell University faculty member, was the author of 10 novels, as well as short-story and essay collections.

via www.nytimes.com

Sad.