Francine Prose is the author of twenty works of fiction. Her novel A Changed Man won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and Blue Angel was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her most recent works of nonfiction include the highly acclaimed Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife, and the New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer. The recipient of numerous grants and honors, including a Guggenheim and a Fulbright, a Director’s Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman 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 lives in New York City.
Francine Prose
Articles by Francine Prose
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.
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
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