Francine Prose

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Francine Prose is the author of many bestselling books of fiction, including A Changed Man and Blue Angel, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and the nonfiction New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer.

Her novel, Household Saints, was adapted for a movie by Nancy Savoca.

Another novel, The Glorious Ones, has been adapted into a musical of the same name by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, which ran at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre at Lincoln Center in New York City in the Fall of 2007.

She lives in New York City.

Select Bibliography

Anne Frank 2009

Touch 2009

Rhino, Rhino, Sweet Potato 2009

Goldengrove 2008

Bullyville 2008

Reading Like a Writer 2006

A Changed Man 2006

Caravaggio 2005

After 2004

The Lives of the Muses 2002

Primitive People 2001

Blue Angel 2000

Women and Children First 1988

Household Saints 1981

Guided Tours of Hell 1997

Hunters and Gatherers 1995

The Peaceable Kingdom 1993

Primitive People 1992

Bigfoot Dreams 1986

Hungry Hearts 1983

Animal Magnetism 1978

Marie Laveau 1977

The Glorious Ones 1974

Judah the Pious 1973

Goldengrove" was featured on Books & Co. on May 9, 2010.
Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife" was featured on Books & Co. on May 9, 2010.
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