Lore Segal is the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Shakespeare's Kitchen, as well as the novels Half the Kingdom, Lucinella, Other People's Houses, Her First American and the collection The Journal I Did Not Keep. She is the recipient of the American Academy Arts and Letters Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, The O'Henry Prize and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize. She has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper's Magazine, The New Republic, and numerous other publications. In 2023, Segal was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives and works in New York City.
National Jewish Book Awards Finalist
The New Yorker's Best Book of the Year!
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"Myserious, mesmerizing ..." —The New York Times
"Segal writes with welcome clarity about life’s final years, and if
her characters are not always as wise as they think they are, Segal
eyes them all with the unsentimental wisdom of a life spent writing
wondrous stories and essays, a career spent telling
the truth." - Slate
"Reading Ladies’ Lunch, one can only be thankful that Segal has not
'thrown away' her people or her memories, which have given us this
indispensable road map of our final journey." — Ann Levin,
The Forward
"Gemlike stories from a master of the form." — Kirkus Reviews,
STARRED Review
"Segal brings her rapier wit to this intelligent
collection...Segal’s unfailing ear and light comedic touch belie
the momentous, existential nature of her subject matter. This is
funny and moving in equal measure." —Publishers Weekly
"Lore Segal celebrates with humor and grace the friendships that
stand the test of time and the particular eccentricities of
aging...Ladies' Lunch, is a delightful example of Segal's
quick and clever wit."—Shelf Awareness
"These witty, sparky tales of ninetysomething Manhattanite ladies
who lunch capture the everyday stuff of ageing." —The Times
"We are lucky to have this piercing collection..."—Times Literary
Supplement
Praise for Lore Segal...
"For almost six decades Segal has quietly produced some of the best
fiction and essays in American literature..."—The New York
Times
"Segal is a monumental writer, one of the finest of her
generation..."—Kirkus Reviews
"Lore Segal has the sharp analytic eye of a born writer" — New York
Times Book Review
"A marvellous and singular writer’" —Observer
"Segal has the dazzling ability to merge the mundane details of
life with the arc of human emotions." — Washington Post
"Segal's ironies are serious, subtle, and profound. Her sentences
are subversively shattering while seemingly quizzical and
detached."—from American Academy of Arts and Letters' induction
citation
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