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