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Francine Prose

(b.1947)

Francine Prose is the author of fourteen books of fiction, including, most recently, A Changed Man and Blue Angel, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her works of nonfiction include the national bestseller The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired. A recipient of numerous grants and awards, among them Guggenheim and Fulbright fellowships, Prose was a Director's Fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. She lives in New York City.

Genres: General Fiction, Historical

Novels

   Judah the Pious (1973)
   The Glorious Ones (1974)
   Animal Magnetism (1978)
   Household Saints (1981)
   Hungry Hearts (1983)
   Bigfoot Dreams (1986)
   Hunters and Gatherers (1995)
   Blue Angel (2000)
   Primitive People (2001)
   After (2003)
   A Changed Man (2005)
   Bullyville (2007)
   Goldengrove (2008)
   Touch (2009)
   My New American Life (2011)
   The Turning (2012)
   Lovers at the Chameleon Club (2014)
   Mister Monkey (2016)
   The Vixen (2021)

Collections

   Women and Children First (1988)
   The Peaceable Kingdom (1993)
   The Angel's Mistake (1997)

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Books containing stories by Francine Prose

Reader, I Married Him (2016)
Stories Inspired by Jane Eyre
edited by
Tracy Chevalier

By the Book (2014)
Writers On Literature and the Literary Life
edited by
Pamela Paul

Central Park (2012)
An Anthology
edited by
Andrew Blauner

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Award nominations

	2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Novel (nominee) : After
	2000 National Book Award for Fiction (shortlist) : Blue Angel

Francine Prose recommends

Dream State (2025)
Eric Puchner
"Eric Puchner has populated his engrossing and deeply affecting novel with characters so complicated and sympathetic that we want--we need--to know how their lives will turn out, and what will happen to the glorious and fragile landscape they inhabit."

James (2024)
Percival Everett
"James is a masterpiece. I read it late this summer, and I have already recommended it to enough people to put it on the bestseller lists, in the classrooms, libraries, book clubs and hands in which it so rightly belongs."

You Only Call When You're in Trouble (2024)
Stephen McCauley
"I read You Only Call When You're in Trouble at a moment when I needed to be around the intelligence and humanity of the novel's characters, and I'm still grateful for being so happily entertained and totally engrossed."

Day (2023)
Michael Cunningham
"Michael Cunningham writes such eloquent, seductive sentences that we have to keep reminding ourselves to step back and pay attention to his appealing, dimensional characters and to his generous vision of childhood and adulthood, of work and love, of the pleasures and griefs of family life, and of all the rich complexities of being human."

Savage Tongues (2021)
Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi
"Savage Tongues touches all the bases—identity, sex, power, youth and age, the present and the past—and knocks it out of the park. Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi is our woke Marguerite Duras."

The Fourth Child (2021)
Jessica Winter
"Jessica Winter's The Fourth Child is a brave, complex novel about a mother and her two daughters—and a morally astute exploration of the rewards, limits, and unexpected costs of faith and compassion."

Gypsy Moth Summer (2017)
Julia Fierro
"In her hugely engaging novel, The Gypsy Moth Summer, Julia Fierro brings a light touch to bear on the most important subjects: social class, race, family, generational conflict, anger and forgiveness. It is a sterling example of how fiction can entertain us and at the same time inspire us to think about the things we urgently need to consider, now more than ever."

The Night Ocean (2017)
Paul La Farge
"The Night Ocean had me from the first sentence. This immensely original, elegantly written and continually surprising novel casts a spell that keeps us enthralled until the book's brilliant conclusion."

I'm Glad About You (2016)
Theresa Rebeck
"Rebeck's smart, funny, deeply sympathetic and astringently observant novel gets everything right."

A Spool of Blue Thread (2015)
Anne Tyler
"Anne Tyler's novels are invitations to spend time in the houses of the Baltimore neighborhood that she has built--house by house, block by block, word by word--over her long and bright career."

City Beasts (2015)
Mark Kurlansky
"Mark Kurlansky's fiction provides the same pleasures we have come to expect from his nonfiction. It's beautifully written, observant, and acutely intelligent."

Gold Boy, Emerald Girl (2010)
Yiyun Li
"[Resonates] with emotion... Gold Boy, Emerald Girl is an example of the treasure an artist can fashion from the raw materials of ordinary existence."

Comedy in a Minor Key (2010)
Hans Keilson
"The Death of the Adversary and Comedy in a Minor Key are masterpieces and Hans Keilson is a genius... Read these books and join me in adding him to the list, which each of us must compose on our own, of the world's greatest writers."

The Lovers (2010)
Vendela Vida
"The lovers is a spare and haunting meditation on how travel can bring us full circle back to the place from which we should have started. I read it over two days and dreamed about it the second night."

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