Francine Prose

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.

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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

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)

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)