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Francine Prose

Author of Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them

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Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who… 3,229 copies, 89 reviews
Blue Angel 940 copies, 27 reviews
Goldengrove 560 copies, 37 reviews
The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired 502 copies, 11 reviews
A Changed Man 491 copies, 9 reviews
Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932: A Novel 442 copies, 21 reviews
The Mrs. Dalloway Reader (Editor) 389 copies, 4 reviews
After 379 copies, 22 reviews
Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife 325 copies, 13 reviews
My New American Life 238 copies, 14 reviews
Mister Monkey 207 copies, 13 reviews
Gluttony: The Seven Deadly Sins 199 copies, 1 review
Guided Tours of Hell: Novellas 174 copies, 2 reviews
Touch 171 copies, 9 reviews
Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles 161 copies, 3 reviews
Bullyville 155 copies, 9 reviews
The Turning 141 copies, 16 reviews
Hunters and Gatherers 131 copies, 4 reviews
Household Saints 129 copies, 1 review
The Peaceable Kingdom: Stories 123 copies, 3 reviews
Primitive People 106 copies, 2 reviews
Bigfoot Dreams 104 copies, 5 reviews
What to Read and Why 92 copies, 3 reviews
Women and Children First: Stories 81 copies, 2 reviews
Sicilian Odyssey (National Geographic Directions) 71 copies
The Angel's Mistake: Stories of Chelm 63 copies, 4 reviews
You Never Know: A Legend of the Lamed-vavniks 59 copies, 1 review
Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern (Jewish Lives) 50 copies, 1 review
Dybbuk: A Story Made in Heaven 48 copies, 2 reviews
The Demons' Mistake: A Story from Chelm 43 copies, 1 review
The Glorious Ones: A Novel 43 copies
Judah the Pious 42 copies
Master Breasts: Objectified, Aesthetisized, Fantasized, Eroticized,… 32 copies
Hungry Hearts 31 copies, 1 review
Marie Laveau 24 copies, 1 review
Stories from Our Living Past 19 copies, 1 review
Tin House 31 (Spring 2007): Evil 16 copies
Leopold, the Liar of Leipzig 16 copies, 1 review
The photographs of Marion Post Wolcott 13 copies, 1 review
Tim Davis: The New Antiquity 13 copies
The Seven Deadly Sins Set: Consisting of Greed, Gluttony, Envy, Lust,… 12 copies, 1 review
Rhino, Rhino, Sweet Potato 9 copies
Lost in Seeing: Italy, thirty years of visions 7 copies
Animal magnetism 5 copies
The Vixen: A Novel 4 copies
Liza Lou 4 copies
Jo Ann Callis: Other Rooms 4 copies
Terry Winters : local group, June 1, 2004 4 copies
Will Cotton: Paintings and Works on Paper 4 copies
Holy Hip-Hop! New Paintings by Alex Melamid FOUND IN EXHIBIT CATALOG FILE 2 copies
Cecily Brown (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series) 2 copies
Chihuly: Faxes 2 copies
Die Liebenden im Chamäleon Club: Roman 2 copies
School For Murder 1 copy
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Cousin Bette (Introduction, some editions) 1,918 copies, 31 reviews
A High Wind in Jamaica (Introduction, some editions) 1,831 copies, 58 reviews
My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales (Contributor) 804 copies, 23 reviews
Hangsaman (Foreword, some editions) 521 copies, 18 reviews
In the Stacks: Short Stories about Libraries and Librarians (Contributor) 501 copies, 11 reviews
Writer's Thesaurus (Contributor) 483 copies, 9 reviews
My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and… (Contributor) 452 copies, 14 reviews
Nine and a Half Weeks (Foreword, some editions) 407 copies, 9 reviews
The London Scene: Six Essays on London Life (Introduction, some editions) 391 copies, 8 reviews
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories… (Introduction) 346 copies, 3 reviews
Flash Fiction: 72 Very Short Stories (Contributor) 345 copies, 10 reviews
This Is Not Chick Lit: Original Stories by America's Best Women Writers (Contributor) 324 copies, 3 reviews
The Life and Death of Harriett Frean (Introduction, some editions) 318 copies, 11 reviews
The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books (Contributor) 282 copies, 12 reviews
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy… (Contributor) 262 copies, 4 reviews
Half-Minute Horrors (Contributor) 232 copies, 20 reviews
Reader, I Married Him (Contributor) 226 copies, 16 reviews
The Condé Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys: Great Writers on… (Contributor) 211 copies, 5 reviews
The Best American Essays 2012 (Contributor) 198 copies, 2 reviews
The Friend Who Got Away (Introduction) 180 copies, 9 reviews
We Are the Stories We Tell (Contributor) 176 copies
The Best American Short Stories 1991 (Contributor) 158 copies, 2 reviews
A Scrap of Time and Other Stories (Translator, some editions) 157 copies, 1 review
Burn This Book: PEN Writers Speak Out on the Power of the Word (Contributor) 157 copies, 4 reviews
Four Letter Word: New Love Letters (Contributor) 123 copies, 2 reviews
What Orwell Didn't Know: Propaganda and the New Face of American Politics (Contributor) 115 copies
Hell Hath No Fury: Women's Letters from the End of the Affair (Foreword) 112 copies
The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories (Contributor) 108 copies, 2 reviews
Know the Past, Find the Future: The New York Public Library at 100 (Contributor) 106 copies, 3 reviews
Granta 115: The F Word (Contributor) 103 copies, 2 reviews
Isaac Bashevis Singer: An Album (Contributor) 101 copies
America and I: Short Stories by American Jewish Women Writers (Contributor) 97 copies
The Best Spiritual Writing 1998 (Contributor) 92 copies, 1 review
L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories (Contributor) 92 copies, 9 reviews
The Sophisticated Cat: A Gathering of Stories, Poems, and Miscellaneous… (Contributor) 90 copies
Choice: True Stories of Birth, Contraception, Infertility, Adoption,… (Contributor) 85 copies, 3 reviews
Best Food Writing 2009 (Contributor) 78 copies
Neurotica: Jewish Writers on Sex (Contributor) 73 copies, 1 review
Who’s Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits… (Contributor) 64 copies
A Fork in the Road: Tales of Food, Pleasure & Discovery on the Road (Contributor) 63 copies, 2 reviews
Not for Bread Alone: Writers on Food, Wine, and the Art of Eating (Contributor) 62 copies, 1 review
Genesis as It Is Written: Contemporary Writers on Our First Stories (Contributor) 52 copies
De wederopstanding van de bakker (Translator, some editions) 48 copies
Beautiful as the Moon, Radiant as the Stars: Jewish Women in Yiddish… (Introduction) 46 copies, 1 review
Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia (Introduction) 45 copies, 2 reviews
The Jewish Writer (Contributor) 42 copies
Yours in Food, John Baldessari (Contributor) 36 copies
The Writer's Notebook II: Craft Essays from Tin House (Contributor) 29 copies, 1 review
The Haves & Have Nots: 30 Stories About Money & Class In America (Contributor) 29 copies
At the End of Life: True Stories About How We Die (Introduction) 25 copies
Antaeus No. 73/74, Spring 1994 - Who’s Writing This: Notations on the… (Contributor) 5 copies
Richard Wathen (Introduction) 2 copies
Anne Frank, l'intégrale (Contributor, some editions) 1 copy
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1947-04-01
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Brooklyn, New York, USA
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New York, New York, USA
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Radcliffe College
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Visiting Professor of Literature, Bard College
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PEN American Center (president)
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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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