Francine Prose

Francine Prose

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caption = Francine Prose
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birthdate = 1947
birthplace = Brooklyn, New York
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occupation = Novelist
nationality = American
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Francine Prose (born in 1947 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American novelist. Since March 2007 she has been the president of PEN American Center. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1968, and received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1991. She has sat on the board of judges for the PEN/Newman's Own Award, and her novel "Blue Angel", a satire about sexual harassment on college campuses, was a finalist for the National Book Award. She is a Visiting Professor of Literature at Bard College. Her novel, "Household Saints" was adapted for a movie by Nancy Savoca. Another novel, "The Glorious Ones", has been adapted into a musical by Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty, playing at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre at Lincoln Center in NYC fall 2007.

Bibliography

Novels

* 1973 "Judah the Pious" Atheneum (Macmillan reissue 1986 ISBN 0839829132)
* 1974 "The Glorious Ones" (ISBN 0061493848, Harper Perennial reissue 10/07)
* 1977 "Marie Laveau", Berkley Publishing Corp. (ISBN 039911873X
* 1981 "Household Saints", St. Martin's Press (ISBN 0-312-39341-5)
* 1983 "Hungry Hearts", Pantheon (ISBN 0-394-52767-4)
* 1986 "Bigfoot Dreams", Pantheon (ISBN 0-8050-4860-X)
* 1992 "Primitive People", Farrar Straus & Giroux (ISBN 0-374-23722-0)
* 1995 "Hunters and Gatherers", Farrar Straus & Giroux (ISBN 0-374-17371-0)
* 2001 "Blue Angel", Harper Perennial (ISBN 0-06-095371-3)
* 2003 "After", Joanna Cotler (ISBN 0-06-008081-7) (young adult novel)
* 2005 "A Changed Man", Harpercollins (ISBN 0-06-019674-2)
* 2008 "Goldengrove", Harpercollins, forthcoming 9/08

hort story collections

* 1988 "Women and Children First", Pantheon (ISBN 0-394-56573-8)
* 1997 "Guided Tours of Hell", Metropolitan (ISBN 0-8050-4861-8)
* 1998 "The Peaceable Kingdom", Farrar Straus & Giroux (ISBN 0-06-075404-4)

Children's books

* 2005 "Leopold, the Liar of Leipzig", Harpercollins (ISBN 0-06-008075-2)

Nonfiction

* 2002 "The Lives of the Muses : Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired", Harpercollins (ISBN 0-06-019672-6)
* 2003 "Gluttony", Oxford University Press (ISBN 0-19-515699-4) (second in the Seven Deadly Sins series)
* 2003 "Sicilian Odyssey", National Geographic (ISBN 0-7922-6535-1)
* 2005 "Caravaggio : Painter of Miracles", Eminent Lives (ISBN 0-06-057560-3)
* 2006 "Reading Like a Writer", HarperCollins (ISBN 0-06-077704-4)

Book reviews

*April 17, 2005 "'The Peabody Sisters': Reflected Glory": "The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism", by Megan Marshall, Houghton Mifflin (ISBN 0-395-38992-5)
*May 22, 2005 "'Oh the Glory of It All': Poor Little Rich Boy": "Oh the Glory of It All", by Sean Wilsey, Penguin (ISBN 1-59420-051-3)
*June 12, 2005 "'Marriage, a History': Lithuanians and Letts Do It," "Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy, Or How Love Conquered Marriage", by Stephanie Coontz, Viking (ISBN 0-670-03407-X)
* August 14, 2005 "'Eudora Welty': Not Just at the P.O.," New York Times: "Eudora Welty: A Biography", by Suzanne Marrs, Harcourt Trade (ISBN 0-15-100914-7)
* December 4, 2005 "Slayer of Taboos," New York Times: "D. H. Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider", by John Worthen, Basic Books (ISBN 1-58243-341-0)
* April 2, 2006 "Science Fiction," New York Times: "The Book About Blanche and Marie", by Per Olov Enquist, Translated by Tiina Nunnally, Overlook (ISBN 1-58567-668-3)
* July 9, 2006 "The Folklore of Exile," New York Times: "Last Evenings on Earth", by Roberto Bolaño, Translated by Chris Andrews, New Directions (ISBN 0-8112-1634-9)

External links

* [http://www.harpercollins.com/author/index.aspx?authorid=14648 Author page at Harpercollins]
* [http://bookishlove.net/200611/francine-prose-at-strand/ Report and photos from reading at Strand] (Nov 2006)


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