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.
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)
6. Necklace of Kisses (2005)
Dangerous Angels (1998)
Beautiful Boys (2004)
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)
6. Necklace of Kisses (2005)
Dangerous Angels (1998)
Beautiful Boys (2004)
Love in the Time of Global Warming
1. Love in the Time of Global Warming (2013)
2. The Island of Excess Love (2014)
1. Love in the Time of Global Warming (2013)
2. The Island of Excess Love (2014)
Novels
Moon Harvest (1978)
The Hanged Man (1993)
Ecstasia (1993)
Primavera (1994)
Zine Scene (1998)
I Was a Teenage Fairy (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)
Evidence of Angels (2009) (with Suza Scalora)
Pretty Dead (2009)
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)
The Hanged Man (1993)
Ecstasia (1993)
Primavera (1994)
Zine Scene (1998)
I Was a Teenage Fairy (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)
Evidence of Angels (2009) (with Suza Scalora)
Pretty Dead (2009)
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)
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 Kelley Armstrong, Kristin Cast, Richelle Mead and Alyson Noël)
Roses and Bones (2010)
Fairy Tales in Electri-City (poems) (2011)
Lay Me Out Softly (2013)
The Rose and the Beast (1993)
Girl Goddess 9 (1996)
Nymph (2000)
Open Letter to Quiet Light (poems) (2009)
Kisses from Hell (2010) (with Kelley Armstrong, Kristin Cast, Richelle Mead and Alyson Noël)
Roses and Bones (2010)
Fairy Tales in Electri-City (poems) (2011)
Lay Me Out Softly (2013)
Novellas
Anthologies edited
Non fiction
Francesca Lia Block recommends

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