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.
