Lore Segal (b. Vienna 1928) is a renowned American author. She won an American Academy Award (for Her First American), the O. Henry Award and was nominated for a Pulitzer. She remains a regular contributor to the New Yorker. Her novel Other People's Houses (1964) was published by Sort of Books in 2018.
Lore Segal has the sharp analytic eye of a born writer * The New York Times Book Review * Segal has the dazzling ability to merge the mundane details of life with the arc of human emotions * The Washington Post * I always feel in her work such a sense of toughness and humor.... Her writing is sad and funny, and that makes it more of both -- Jennifer Egan If America had anything resembling a wise elder, or cared to, it would be Lore Segal -- Shalom Auslander