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Francine Prose

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Francine Prose is the author of twenty-one works of fiction including, the highly acclaimed Mister Monkey; the New York Times bestseller Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932; A Changed Man, which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize; and Blue Angel, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her works of nonfiction include the highly praised Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife, and the New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer, which has become a classic. The recipient of numerous grants and honors, including a Guggenheim and a Fulbright, a Director’s Fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, Prose is a former president of PEN American Center, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College.

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1974

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Loss of Memory Is Only Temporary book cover

Loss of Memory Is Only Temporary

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The Vixen

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What to Read and Why

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Nothing

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Mister Monkey

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The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant

Mavis Gallant
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Frankenstein

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Middlemarch

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Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932

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Piano Stories

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Goldengrove

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Guided Tours of Hell

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Hunters and Gatherers

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Judah the Pious

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The Peaceable Kingdom

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Bigfoot Dreams

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The Glorious Ones

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Household Saints

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Primitive People

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