Lurie, Alison (1926– )

US novelist and critic. Her subtly written and satirical novels include Imaginary Friends (1967); The War Between the Tates (1974); Foreign Affairs (1984; Pulitzer Prize); The Truth About Lorin Jones (1988); Don't Tell the Grown-ups (1990), a collection of essays on children's literature and folklore; Women and Ghosts (1994), a collection of ghost stories; and The Last Resort (1998).

A number of her novels have been adapted for television, including The War Between the Tates (1974), which later became a television film, Imaginary Friends (1967), which was made into a television series in 1987, and Foreign Affairs, which was made into a film for television in 1993.

She was a professor of English at Cornell University from 1970.