Francine Prose
Author · 38 books
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. Her most recent book is Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932. She lives in New York City.
Series
Books
Bigfoot Dreams
1986
Primitive People
1992
Blue Angel
2000
You Never Know
A Legend of the Lamed-vavniks
1998
The Glorious Ones
1974
Goldengrove
2008
Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932
2014
Master Breasts
Objectified, Aestheticized, Fantasized, Eroticized, Feminized by Photography's Most Titillating Masters
1998
Marie Laveau
1977
The Turning
2012
The Writer's Notebook II
Craft Essays from Tin House
2012
A Changed Man
2005
Cleopatra
Her History, Her Myth
2022
Bullyville
2007
Guided Tours of Hell
Novellas
1997
1974
A Personal History
2024
Judah the Pious
1973
The Peaceable Kingdom
1993
Sicilian Odyssey
2003
Touch
2009
Peggy Guggenheim
The Shock of the Modern
2015
Gluttony
The Seven Deadly Sins
2003
My New American Life
2011
Reading Like a Writer
A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
2006
Mister Monkey
2016
After
2003
The Photographs of Marion Post Wolcott
2008
Caravaggio
Painter of Miracles
2005
The Vixen
2021
Women and Children First
1974
What to Read and Why
2018
The Lives of the Muses
Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired
2002
Household Saints
1983
Anne Frank
The Book, the Life, the Afterlife
2009
Hunters and Gatherers
1995
Lonely Planet The Lonely Planet Travel Anthology
True stories from the world's best writers
2016
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales
1998
I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read
2025
