[Rarebooks] FS: Pulitzer Winner Alison Lurie MANUSCRIPT & LETTER from when she was 17

[Charles Agvent]

LURIE, Alison. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) with AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT 
(AM) by a 17-Year-Old Future Pulitzer Winner. Cambridge, [10 July 1943]. 
Superb, very early three-page handwritten letter on two sheets of 5-1/2" 
x 6-3/4" sheets of personal stationery to a former teacher and mentor 
SIGNED "Alison." Lurie, just 17 at the time, had just begun her freshman 
year at Radcliffe College: "I've tried not to write until I got more 
used to everything, until all the pieces of the puzzle fell into place 
-- but they don't. I won't admit it, even to myself, but I don't like 
Radcliffe." She finds that her fellow students "talk for hours about 
nothing at all," and her English composition teacher is "a horrid 
slap-you-on-the-back conservative practical sort of man who goes in for 
punctuation and research." She discusses dating Harvard men: "they're 
all exactly the same, every one." With a HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT of a 
12-line poem titled "Spider's Web" (likely never published) which Lurie 
sent with the explanation: "You'll be the first person to see it -- 
there's no one here I can show it to. I feel so alone." Some 380 words 
in all. With the envelope hand-addressed by Lurie. Despite her early 
misgivings, Lurie went on to graduate from Radcliffe. Her first novel 
was not published until almost two decades after this letter. She won 
the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her 1984 novel FOREIGN AFFAIRS. 
Creases from mailing. About Fine. (#021351)     $1,500

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