Francine Prose
Auteur van Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
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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 toon meer 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) toon minder
Fotografie: Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
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Algemene kennis
- Geboortedatum
- 1947-04-01
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- New York, New York, USA
- Opleiding
- Radcliffe College
- Beroepen
- Visiting Professor of Literature, Bard College
writer - Organisaties
- PEN American Center (president)
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- 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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2000s decade (3)
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Bibliomemoirs (1)
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