About the Author

Lore Segal (1928–2024) was born in Vienna and educated at the University of London. The author of Other People’s Houses, Her First American, and Shakespeare’s Kitchen (all published by The New Press) and other works, she was a regular contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, and other publications.

Reviews

 Praise for Other People's Houses:
"An immensely impressive, unclassifiable book. On the surface it is an account of flight from the Nazis, of displacement and transplantation; but beneath that it contains an extraordinary rendering of the self."
—The New Republic "A brilliant novel in the form of a memoir . . . [Lore Segal has] the sharp analytic eye of a born writer."
—The New York Times Book Review "Great sensitivity, coolness, and charm . . . the keen innocent observation of the child’s-eye view."
—New York Review of Books