Francine Prose
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born
January 01, 1947
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female
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The United States
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Literature & Fiction
about this author
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. She is now teaching at Bard College.
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Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them by Francine Prose avg rating 3.74 — 1,137 ratings — published 2006 6 editions |
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Blue Angel: A Novel by Francine Prose avg rating 3.26 — 885 ratings — published 2000 8 editions |
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Goldengrove: A Novel by Francine Prose avg rating 3.26 — 613 ratings — published 2008 6 editions |
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A Changed Man: A Novel by Francine Prose avg rating 3.28 — 330 ratings — published 2006 5 editions |
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After by Francine Prose avg rating 3.58 — 229 ratings — published 2003 5 editions |
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The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired by Francine Prose avg rating 3.69 — 212 ratings — published 2002 8 editions |
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Guided Tours of Hell: Novellas by Francine Prose avg rating 3.45 — 109 ratings — published 1997 3 editions |
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Household Saints: A Novel by Francine Prose avg rating 3.81 — 84 ratings — published 1981 8 editions |
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Touch by Francine Prose avg rating 2.91 — 96 ratings — published 2009 4 editions |
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Primitive People: A Novel by Francine Prose avg rating 3.25 — 65 ratings — published 1992 3 editions |
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"The mystery of death, the riddle of how you could speak to someone and see them every day and then never again, was so impossible to fathom that of course we kept trying to figure it out, even when we were unconscious."
— Francine Prose (Goldengrove: A Novel)
— Francine Prose (Goldengrove: A Novel)
"We don't know what we'd do. Nobody knows what accident of fate or DNA character will determine how we act when the shit hits the fan."
— Francine Prose (Guided Tours of Hell: Novellas)
— Francine Prose (Guided Tours of Hell: Novellas)
"Like, for example, sleeve length. Should he hide the tattoos? Or just wear a T-shirt and let "them" do the talking? If one picture's worth a thousand words, that's the first two thousand right there, two thousand minus the hi howareya nicetameetcha. "
— Francine Prose
— Francine Prose
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