Lore Segal

Novelist, essayist, translator, and writer of short stories and children's literature. Best known publication, Other People's Houses (2004), details her experience as a refugee. Awards include 1986 Academy Award for Her First American, American Library Association Notable Book Award in 1970 for Tell Me a Mitzi. Contributor of short stories to The New Yorker, The Saturday Evening Post, The New Republic, Epoch, and Commentary. Contributor of essays to Social Research, Harper's Magazine, The Antioch Review, Parnassus, and book reviews to The New York Times. Translated several of the Grimm brothers' fairy tales (with cotranslator Randall Jarrell and illustrator Maurice Sendak) in such works as The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm (1978).