Francine Prose

Francine Prose is the author of twenty-two works of fiction including the highly acclaimed The Vixen; Mister Monkey; the New York Times bestseller Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932; A Changed Man, which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize; and Blue Angel, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her works of nonfiction include the highly praised Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife, and the New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer, which has become a classic. The recipient of numerous grants and honors, including a Guggenheim and a Fulbright, a Director’s Fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, Prose is a former president of PEN American Center, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College.


Articles by Francine Prose

World Voices Festival
Monday August 25

Home Truths

When we talk about surveillance in other countries, repression in other countries, political problems in other countries, we need to keep in mind that we have some problems here as well, and some problems abroad that we have helped to cause.

Organizational
Thursday September 14

Places of the Heart

New York Times It took two years for me to be able walk to the end of my block and not feel a visceral shock each time I looked down University Place and saw that the World Trade Center towers weren’t there. Eventually, I got used to the fact that I wasn’t going to see

Organizational
Saturday December 3

Reading Is a Prime Defense Against Assault on Our Rights

As a child, one of my favorite novels was Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451.” Its subject is book burning — 451 degrees Fahrenheit is the temperature at which books catch fire — but I knew that the novel was science fiction. Later, when I heard about the burning of books by the Nazis, and about the