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Oh How I Love Foreign Affairs
On a cold blowy February day a woman is boarding the ten a.m. flight to London, followed by an invisible dog. The woman’s name is Virginia Miner; she is fifty-four years old, small, plain, and unmarried — the sort of person that no one ever notices, though she is an Ivy League college professor who has published several books and has a well-established reputation in the expanding field of children’s literature.
— from Foreign Affairs, the 1984 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction, by Alison Lurie, who is 83 today. This family photo of Lurie and her dog, Sliver, was taken in 1947, in White Plains, New Jersey.
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