 When "The War Between the Tates" was published in 1974, Lurie was a part-time adjunct teaching English at Cornell University (she later became the second woman to be awarded tenure at Cornell) where her husband was a full professor.The fictional Corinth University, with its setting of creeks flowing through deep gorges, gracious but not always comfortable academic buildings, and its shabby college town, is obviously modeled on Cornell.In a 2005 interview in the "Cornell Chronicle", Lurie maintained that her novel had been a composite