Lore Segal, author of autobiographical novels of her life as a young Jewish Viennese refugee in England and as an émigré in America, died on Oct. 7 at her home in Manhattan. She was 96.

Ms. Segal was one of 500 children who boarded a train in Vienna as part of the British-organized Kindertransport that delivered them from Nazi-occupied territory to foster families in England. Ms. Segal, age 10, was registered as No. 152, the only child of middle-class parents. Her parents followed in 1939.

She ultimately settled in New York and began to tell tales of her exile. “Other People’s Houses,” Ms. Segal’s memoir-disguised as a novel, first appeared in serial form in The New Yorker before it was published as a book in 1964. She became a regular contributor to the magazine. Her 2007 novel, Shakespeare’s Kitchen, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction.