Francine Prose
Forfatter af Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
Om forfatteren
Francine Prose was born on April 1, 1947. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1968. She received the PEN Translation Prize in 1988 and received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1991. Francine Prose novel The Glorious Ones, has been adapted into a musical with the same title by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen vis mere Flaherty. It ran at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center in New York City in the fall of 2007. Prose has served as president of PEN American Center, a New York City based literary society of writers, editors, and translators that works to advance literature in 2007 and 2008. Prose novel, Blue Angel, a satire about sexual harassment on college campuses, was a finalist for the National Book Award. One of her novels, Household Saints, was adapted for a movie by Nancy Savoca. In 2014 her title Lovers at the Chameleon Club - Paris 1932, made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
Image credit: Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Serier
Værker af Francine Prose
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (2006) 3,697 eksemplarer
Master Breasts: Objectified, Aesthetisized, Fantasized, Eroticized, Feminized by Photography's Most Titillating Masters (1998) 40 eksemplarer
The Seven Deadly Sins Set: Consisting of Greed, Gluttony, Envy, Lust, Sloth, Anger, and Pride (2006) 12 eksemplarer
School For Murder 1 eksemplar
Para leer como un escritor 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Anne Franks dagbog : den uforkortede originaludgave : optegnelser fra baghuset 12. juni 1942-1. august 1944 (1947) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver — 5,772 eksemplarer
My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales (2010) — Bidragyder — 986 eksemplarer
My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop (2012) — Bidragyder — 560 eksemplarer
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Introduktion — 380 eksemplarer
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Bidragyder — 347 eksemplarer
This Is Not Chick Lit: Original Stories by America's Best Women Writers (2006) — Bidragyder — 342 eksemplarer
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales (1998) — Bidragyder — 298 eksemplarer
The Condé Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys: Great Writers on Great Places (2007) — Bidragyder — 255 eksemplarer
The Friend Who Got Away: Twenty Women's True Life Tales of Friendships that Blew Up, Burned Out or Faded Away (2005) — Introduktion — 203 eksemplarer
Burn This Book: PEN Writers Speak Out on the Power of the Word (2009) — Bidragyder — 180 eksemplarer
What Orwell Didn't Know: Propaganda and the New Face of American Politics (2007) — Bidragyder — 127 eksemplarer
Know the Past, Find the Future: The New York Public Library at 100 (2011) — Bidragyder — 117 eksemplarer
A Fork in the Road: Tales of Food, Pleasure, and Discovery on the Road (2013) — Bidragyder — 101 eksemplarer
The Sophisticated Cat: A Gathering of Stories, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings About Cats (1992) — Bidragyder — 100 eksemplarer
The Dark End of the Street: New Stories of Sex and Crime by Today's Top Authors (2010) — Bidragyder — 94 eksemplarer
Choice: True Stories of Birth, Contraception, Infertility, Adoption, Single Parenthood, and Abortion (2007) — Bidragyder — 93 eksemplarer
Who's Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits {not Antæus} (1995) — Bidragyder — 72 eksemplarer
Not for Bread Alone: Writers on Food, Wine, and the Art of Eating (1992) — Bidragyder — 71 eksemplarer
Genesis as It Is Written: Contemporary Writers on Our First Stories (1996) — Bidragyder — 63 eksemplarer
Beautiful as the Moon, Radiant as the Stars: Jewish Women in Yiddish Stories: An Anthology (2003) — Introduktion — 57 eksemplarer
The Haves & Have Nots: 30 Stories About Money & Class In America (1999) — Bidragyder — 33 eksemplarer
The New Diaspora: The Changing Landscape of American Jewish Fiction (2015) — Bidragyder — 13 eksemplarer
And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again: Writers from Around the World on the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020) — Bidragyder — 12 eksemplarer
Antaeus No. 73/74, Spring 1994 - Who’s Writing This: Notations on the Authorial I {magazine} (1994) — Bidragyder — 5 eksemplarer
Satte nøgleord på
Almen Viden
- Fødselsdato
- 1947-04-01
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Bopæl
- New York, New York, USA
- Uddannelse
- Radcliffe College
- Erhverv
- Visiting Professor of Literature, Bard College
writer - Organisationer
- PEN American Center (president)
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- National Book Award (finalist)
Guggenheim Fellowship (1991)
Washington University International Humanities Medal (2010)
The Rome Prize Fellowship (2006)
Dayton Literary Peace Prize
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My New American Life: A Novel af Francine Prose
I expected more from the author based on prior work. It was an entertaining premise but I found the book to be "lite" and an easy read without much depth, character development (other than Lula the Albanian immigrant who came up with the occasional pithy remark) or plot.
This book follows a collection of characters involved with the production of a children's musical, "Mister Monkey." It's over-all an engaging and funny book, though I would say a little disjointed and slapstick.
This book was fairly tedious and found humor in people who had major problems, something that does not amuse me. Of course the woman who had lived a very difficult life and had very little material sustenance was the person who best understood life and its circumstances. It was truly a book of despair that did not appeal to me.
That’s it, I’m never reading a novel that has anything to do with a chimp/monkey again.
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- Værker
- 61
- Also by
- 65
- Medlemmer
- 11,687
- Popularitet
- #2,014
- Vurdering
- 3.9
- Anmeldelser
- 396
- ISBN
- 320
- Sprog
- 12
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- 16
