Lore Segal

When Lore Segal was ten years old, she left her native Vienna and came to England, where she lived with a number of foster families. After receiving her B.A. English Honors from the University of London in 1948, she went to live in the Dominican Republic until her American quota allowed her to come to New York in May 1951.

Between 1968 and 1978 she taught writing at Columbia University's School of the Arts, Princeton, Bennington College, Sarah Lawrence, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Ohio State University from which she retired in 1996.

Lore Segal has worked as novelist, essayist, translator, and writer of children’s books. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and grants from the National Endowments for the Arts, and the Humanities. Her reviews appear in the New York Times Book Review and her stories in the New Yorker. Her story "The Reverse Bug" was included in Best American Short Stories, 1989 and won a prize in Prize Stories 1990, The O.Henry Awards.

Lore Segal's novels include Other People's Houses, serialized in The New Yorker and published by Harcourt Brace in 1964, currently available from The New Press, 1994; Lucinella(FSG, 1978); and Her First American, which won an award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (Knopf, 1985, The New Press, 1995).

Among Lore Segal’s children’s books are Tell Me a Mitzi, illustrated by Harriet Pincus, Tell Me a Trudy, illustrated by Rosemary Wells (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970 and 1979 res.), All the Way Home , illustrated by James Marshall, (FSG, 1973), The Story of Old Mrs. Brubeck and How She Looked for Trouble and Where She Found Him , illustrated by Marcia Sewall (Pantheon, 1981), The Story of Mrs. Lovewright and Purrless Her Cat, illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky,(Knopf, 1985 and Atheneum, 2004), Morris the Artist, illustrated by Boris Kulikov,(FSG, 2003), and Why Mole Shouted and Other Stories, illustrated by Sergio Ruzzier (FSG, 2004).

She translated Gallows Songs with W.D. Snodgrass, from the German of Christian Morgenstern, (University of Michigan Press, 1959), The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm with illustrations by Maurice Sendak (FSG, 1973, revised edition 2003), The Book of Adam to Moses (Knopf, 1987) and The Story of King Saul and King David (Schocken, 1991).