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Jill Starishevsky left a comment for Francine Prose

"Hi Francine, I wanted to connect with you and ask for your feedback. I recently did my first on-camera interview for the children's book on child sexual abuse prevention that I wrote, My Body Belongs to Me. Please let me know what you think…"

Jun 9, 2010

Elizabeth Hilts left a comment for Francine Prose

"I will add my thanks for Reading Like a Writer—and all your work."

Aug 2, 2009

Brenda Pontiff left a comment for Francine Prose

"Dear Francine, I realized you were a member of She Writes when I saw the cover of Reading Like a Writer scroll past. I finished it a few weeks ago and keep it close by as an amazing source of inspiration. Have recommended it to all my writer…"

Jul 22, 2009

Sharon DeBartolo Carmack left a comment for Francine Prose

"Thanks for writing Reading Like a Writer. It's a great book, which I'm reading for the second time."

Jul 15, 2009

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"Welcome! I have admired your work for years. All best wishes."

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Books I've written, anthologies I've contributed to, and any scripts or plays I've authored:: Francine Prose is the author of twelve novels, including Blue Angel, which was nominated for a 2000 National Book Award. Her most recent books are Reading Like a Writer; Goldengrove, A Changed Man, Touch, a novel for young adults, Sicilian Odyssey, a
ravel book, The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired., Gluttony, a meditation on a deadly sin, and Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles (Eminent Lives). Her other books include Hunters and Gatherers, Bigfoot Dreams and Primitive People,
wo story collections, and a collection of novellas, Guided Tours of Hell. She has also written four children's books and co-translated three volumes of fiction. Her stories, reviews and essays have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Best Ameri
n Short Stories, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Observer, Art News, The Yale Review, The New Republic, and numerous other publications. A fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities, and a 1999 Director's Fellow of the New York
ublic Library's Center for Scholars and Writers, she is a contributing editor of Harper's Magazine and Bomb magazine, and writes regularly on art for The Wall Street Journal. Her novel, A Changed Man, was the first winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Pr
e. The winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a 1989 Fulbright fellowship to the former Yugoslavia, two NEA grants, and a PEN translation prize, she has taught at Harvard, Sarah Lawrence, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, The University of Arizona, The University
f Utah, the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers Conferences. A former President of PEN American Cente, she is currently a Distinguihserd Visiting Writer at Bard Colleger. A film of her novel, Household Saints, was released in 1993.

Media outlets that I currently write for:: see above

My writing is:: Fiction, Nonfiction, Journalism, Lit Crit

Outlets where I review books, TV, or film:: yes

I'm part of these writers' groups or salons:: no

My professional associations:: PEN

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At 3:44pm on June 9, 2010, Jill Starishevsky said…: Hi Francine,

I wanted to connect with you and ask for your feedback. I recently did my first on-camera interview for the children's book on child sexual abuse prevention that I wrote, My Body Belongs to Me. Please let me know what you think when you have some time.

Thanks in advance.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/video/talking-kids-sexual-abuse-10255396

Jill Starishevsky
Author, My Body Belongs to Me
www.MyBodyBelongstoMe.com

At 9:20am on August 2, 2009, Elizabeth Hilts said…: I will add my thanks for Reading Like a Writer—and all your work.

At 10:26am on July 22, 2009, Brenda Pontiff said…: Dear Francine,

I realized you were a member of She Writes when I saw the cover of Reading Like a Writer scroll past. I finished it a few weeks ago and keep it close by as an amazing source of inspiration. Have recommended it to all my writer friends. I'm a fan!

Best,
Brenda

At 5:19pm on July 15, 2009, Sharon DeBartolo Carmack said…: Thanks for writing Reading Like a Writer. It's a great book, which I'm reading for the second time.