Lore Segal

Fiction Writer

New York, NY
New York US

Author's Bio

Lore Segal is an Austrian American novelist, translator, teacher, short story writer, and author of children's books. She was the author of five novels, and was known for her autobiographical fiction, drawing on her life as an Austrian Jewish refugee who fled to the U.K. as a child, growing up in England before settling in the United States. Her fourth novel, Shakespeare's Kitchen, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2008. Segal died at the age of ninety-six on October 7, 2024.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Eliza's Kitchen (Blue Cathedral, 2000)
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Best American Short Stories (Houghton Mifflin, 1990)
Books:
Shakespeare's Kitchen (New Press, 2007)
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Morris the Artist (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003)
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Her First American (New Press, 1994)
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Other People's Houses (New Press, 1994)
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The Story of King Saul & King David (Schocken Press, 1991)

More Information

Identifies as: 
Jewish
Fluent in: 
German
Born in: 
Vienna
Austria
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Last update: Feb 14, 2025