Alison Lurie's Birth Card: The 8 of Diamonds

In the record

Alison Stewart Lurie (September 3, 1926 – December 3, 2020) was an American novelist and academic. The birth-card coordinate for September 3 is the 8 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of Alison Lurie's 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction — Foreign Affairs.

Pulitzer Fiction record

• 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction — Foreign Affairs

Alison Lurie is on the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction list for Foreign Affairs (https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/1985). Alison Lurie (Q272638, Wikipedia “Alison Lurie”) appears here as a person-scope Fiction winner. Alison Lurie is listed as the sole Fiction recipient for each year in this pack. Works in this pack for Alison Lurie: 1985 Foreign Affairs. Alison Lurie's English Wikipedia title is the same string as the harvested name. Birth date 1926-09-03 is the Wikipedia infobox day for Alison Lurie, verified against Wikidata P569 1926-09-03 (match). Pulitzer.org bio date status for Alison Lurie is unavailable. The harvested card symbol for September 3 is 8♦. A public death date of December 3, 2020 (2020-12-03) is listed on Wikidata P570 for Alison Lurie. Source URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_Lurie is the Wikipedia article used for Alison Lurie. This page does not invent a childhood or a private address for Alison Lurie. It only names the calendar coordinate for September 3 and the Fiction titles already listed for Alison Lurie.

The 8 of Diamonds coordinate

Alison Lurie was born September 3, 1926 (1926-09-03). Month 9 and day 3 give solar value 34, which is the 8 of Diamonds (The Businessman). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1926 is unused, so Alison Lurie's 1926 birth year does not move the card. The 8 of Diamonds does not predict a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and is not a verdict on Alison Lurie. Quoted system copy for the 8 of Diamonds, not a biography of Alison Lurie: You run the money system in the open and you can explain the call. You approach resources as something to master and control. You're ambitious, competitive, and strategic. You know how to play the game and win. Harvested gifts listed for the 8 of Diamonds: Strategic thinking about resources and power; Natural ability to leverage opportunities; Ambitious drive and determination; Talent for creating material success. Harvested life-direction line for the 8 of Diamonds: Your curriculum is learning that true wealth includes happiness. You're learning that money is a means, not an end.

Live 8 of Diamonds meaning page

Wikipedia summary used as source_text

Alison Stewart Lurie was an American novelist and academic. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her 1984 novel Foreign Affairs. Although better known as a novelist, she wrote many non-fiction books and articles, particularly on children's literature and the semiotics of dress.

Alison Lurie in the public record

She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her 1984 novel Foreign Affairs. Although better known as a novelist, she wrote many non-fiction books and articles, particularly on children's literature and the semiotics of dress. Alison Stewart Lurie was born on September 3, 1926, in Chicago, and raised in White Plains, New York. Her father Harry Lawrence Lurie was a sociologist, and her mother Bernice Lurie (née Stewart) was a journalist and book critic. Her father was born in Latvia and her mother was born in Scotland. Her father was the first executive director of the National Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds. Due to complications with a forceps delivery, she was born deaf in one ear and with damage to her facial muscles. She attended a boarding school in Darien, Connecticut, and graduated from Radcliffe College of Harvard University in 1947 with a bachelor's degree in history and literature.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Alison Lurie (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the Queen of Spades

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Alison Lurie, and not a forecast of a Pulitzer.

You tell the necessary truth at a volume the other person can use. You have wisdom, understanding, and the ability to guide others toward truth. You create intellectual safety where people can explore ideas. You're the wise counselor.

Love and Friendship (1962) The Nowhere City (1966) Imaginary Friends (1967) Real People (1969) The War Between the Tates (1974) Only Children (1979) Foreign Affairs (1984) The Truth About Lorin Jones (1988) The Last Resort (1998) Truth and Consequences (2005) Women and Ghosts (1994) The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales (1975) Clever Gretchen and Other Forgotten Folktales (1

Paired on shared wording: people, truth.

Also on the record

1. Lurie met literary scholar Jonathan Peale Bishop while in college, and they married in 1948.
2. Bishop later taught at Amherst College and Cornell University, and Lurie moved along with him.
3. They had three sons and divorced in 1984.
4. She then married the writer Edward Hower.

Other Fiction winners with this card

• Eudora Welty — 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction — The Optimist's Daughter

FAQ

What is Alison Lurie's birth card?

The 8 of Diamonds. September 3 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Alison Lurie's year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, novels, character, or fate.

Where do Alison Lurie's dates and Fiction credits come from?

Birth date 1926-09-03 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Alison Lurie, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only infoboxes and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Winner identity comes from the Wikipedia Pulitzer Prize for Fiction list, which cites Pulitzer.org year pages. The Fiction line is 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction — Foreign Affairs. Pulitzer.org bio date status is unavailable. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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