Francine Prose
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Francine Prose (born in 1947 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American novelist. 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.
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[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Novels
- 1977 Marie Laveau, Berkley Publishing Corp. (ISBN 39911873X)
- 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)
[edit] Short 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)
[edit] Children's books
- 2005 Leopold, the Liar of Leipzig, Harpercollins (ISBN 0-06-008075-2)
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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 "'Mariage, 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 BolaƱo, Translated by Chris Andrews, New Directions (ISBN 0-8112-1634-9)
[edit] External links
- Author page at Harpercollins
- The Bat Segundo Show #84 (2006 -- podcast interview)
- Report and photos from reading at Strand (Nov 2006)