Lore Segal (1928-2024), author of Her First American and Shakespeare's Kitchen, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize (both published by The New Press), among other works, was the recipient of a New Yorker Best Book of the Year Award, an O. Henry Prize, the Clifton Fadiman Medal, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She was a regular contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, and other publications.

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."
--The New York Review of Books

;It is a remarkable memoir indeed that, written in New York City in the late 1950s, can so strongly resemble not the structure but the feel of postwar European fiction. While Other People's Houses is filled with vivid portraits and some marvelous close-ups--England certainly escapes abstraction--what dominates the book is this tone: the tone of one whom history has stunned, and made go cold all over."
--The Nation

"A precise, objectively observed recasting of her autobiography . . . [that] makes for an atypically clear and unsentimental evocation of wartime displacement."
--The Wall Street Journal

Publisher: New Press

Pub date: 2026-03-17

Length: 328 pages