Francine Prose
American novelist and essayist
Francine Prose is an American novelist, essayist and critic. She wrote Reading Like a Writer, a New York Times bestseller.
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American Born in Brooklyn, United States
About Francine Prose
Francine Prose is an American writer of novels, short stories, essays and criticism. She has held a writer-in-residence post at Bard College and once served as president of PEN American Center. Her novel A Changed Man received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Blue Angel was a National Book Award finalist in 2000. Her nonfiction includes Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife and Reading Like a Writer, which made the New York Times bestseller list. She has been awarded a Guggenheim and a Fulbright, and she is a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.