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Francesca Lia Block


USA flag (b.1962)

Francesca Lia Block was born, and still lives, in Los Angeles with her husband, daughter and a springer spaniel named Vincent Van Go-Go Boots.

Like the star of her first novel, Weetzie Bat, Francesca once had bleached-blond hair, wore engineer boots with 1950s prom dresses, drove around in a red-and-white 1955 pontiac convertible and slammed to bands in underground clubs. She found the name 'Weetzie' on the license plate of a pink Pinto when she was sixteen, 'My Secret Agent Lover Man' in a graffiti scrawl, and other characters' names from what she describes as her 'rampaging subconscious'.

The daughter of a poet and a painter, Francesca Lia Block's work has been influenced by the visual arts, by her love of Greek myths and fairytales, as well as by music and dance. While at the University of California at Berkeley, her influences expanded to include the magic-realist fiction of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Isabel Allende, as well as the modernist poetry of Hilda Doolittle. She is currently developing an original series for MTV and a screenplay of Weetzie Bat for cinema.
 

Genres: Young Adult Romance
 
Series
Weetzie Bat
   0. Pink Smog (2012)
   1. Weetzie Bat (1989)
   2. Witch Baby (1991)
   3. Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys (1992)
   4. Missing Angel Juan (1993)
   5. Baby Be-Bop (1995)
   Dangerous Angels (1998)
   Beautiful Boys (2004)
   6. Necklace of Kisses (2005)
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Novels
   Moon Harvest (1978)
   The Hanged Man (1993)
   Ecstasia (1993)
   Primavera (1994)
   I Was a Teenage Fairy (1998)
   Zine Scene (1998)
   Violet and Claire (1999)
   Echo (2001)
   Wasteland (2003)
   Ruby (2006) (with Carmen Staton)
   Psyche in a Dress (2006)
   Quakeland (2008)
   Blood Roses (2008)
   How to (Un)cage a Girl (2008)
   The Waters and the Wild (2009)
   Pretty Dead (2009)
   Evidence of Angels (2009) (with Suza Scalora)
   House of Dolls (2010)
   The Frenzy (2010)
   The Elementals (2012)
   Teen Spirit (2014)
   Beyond the Pale Motel (2014)
   My Miserable Life (2016) (with F L Block)
   House of Hearts (2022)
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Collections
   Season of Green (poems) (1979)
   The Rose and the Beast (1993)
   Girl Goddess 9 (1996)
   Nymph (2000)
   Open Letter to Quiet Light (poems) (2009)
   Kisses from Hell (2010) (with others)
   Roses and Bones (2010)
   Fairy Tales in Electri-City (poems) (2011)
   Lay Me Out Softly (2013)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Dead Girls (2019)
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Anthologies edited
   Rough Magick (2015) (with Jessa Marie Mendez)
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Non fiction show
 
Francesca Lia Block recommends
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The Last Songbird (2023)
(Pacific Coast Highway Mystery, book 1)
Daniel Weizmann
"Weizmann's fiction is informed by his past as a highly influential and precocious young veteran of the punk scene, as well as by his lifelong passion for music, his career in journalism and his love of noir and Los Angeles. This book is funny, poetic, gripping, and beautifully tackles themes of creativity, fame and family."
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Top Rankin' (2021)
Howard Paar
"A must-read for anyone who wants to learn more about the early punk/ska scene in Los Angeles, all viewed through a noir lens."
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The Roxy Letters (2020)
Mary Pauline Lowry
"The breezy, charming, laugh-out-loud-funny voice of this book belies the strong bones of plot, character development, place and theme that lie beneath. Part love goddess, part urban warrior, part best-friend-you-wish-you-had, Roxy takes Austin by storm. You will fall in love with her."

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Anthologies containing stories by Francesca Lia Block
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Summer Days & Summer Nights (2016)
Twelve Love Stories
edited by
Stephanie Perkins
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Taking Aim (2015)
Power and Pain, Teens and Guns
edited by
Michael Cart

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