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Francine Prose (born April 1, 1947) is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and critic. She is a visiting professor of literature at Bard College, and was formerly president of PEN American Center.
- Novels, short stories, nonfiction
- Writer
- American
- Radcliffe College
The 2,000-square-foot vegetable plot—planted with fava beans, peas, arugula, raspberries, even artichokes—that author Francine Prose ’68, A.M. ’69, cultivates at her upstate New York home has become, she says, “an obsession.
Reading Like a Writer is a writing guide by American writer Francine Prose, published in 2006. Background. Subtitled "A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them," — Prose shares how she developed her writing craft through writing and reading.
- Francine Prose
- 275 pp
- 2006
- 2006
Jun 28, 2021 · Francine Prose writes a lot. During her nearly 50-year career, Prose has published 30 books along with reams of essays, reviews, columns and travelogues on subjects as diverse as Anne Frank,...
- Elizabeth A. Harris
Jun 29, 2021 · Francine Prose writes sentences that make me laugh out loud. Her insights, the subtle ones and the two-by-fours, make me shake my head in despair, in surprise, in heartfelt agreement.
Jun 13, 2014 · An Interview with Francine Prose. Even casual readers of literary warhorses the New York Times Book Review and the New York Review of Books will recognize the name Francine Prose. She’s written more than a dozen novels dating back to 1973, from Judah the Pious (Atheneum, 1973) to her latest opus, Lovers at the Chameleon Club (Harper, 2014).
Nov 29, 2021 · Kleist, the German Romantic genius, spent time in a clinic in Würzburg, “for a removal of an impediment to marriage,” though it is unclear whether his problem was physical or psychological. He ended his life in the most famous double suicide in literary history.
