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Prose sat on the board of judges for the PEN/Newman's Own Award. Her novel, Blue Angel, a satire about sexual harassment on college campuses, was a finalist for the National Book Award. One of her novels, Household Saints, was adapted for a movie by Nancy Savoca. Prose received the Rome Prize in 2006. [7] Prose at the 2010 Brooklyn Book Festival
Francine Prose (primarily an author of adult fiction): After; Anne Provoost: Falling, My Aunt is a Pilot Whale, In the Shadow of the Ark; Philip Pullman: Sally Lockhart series, His Dark Materials trilogy
Prose argues that gestures performed by fictional characters should not be "physical clichés" but illuminations that move the narrative. Chapter Ten: Learning from Chekhov; Prose gives examples of what she has learned from reading Anton Chekhov. As a creative writing teacher, she would disseminate advice to her students after reading their ...
approx. 600 biographical-critical entries, arranged alphabetically by name: 'In part, the project was a recovery effort, validating the work of a large cast of women writers, many of whom wrote anonymously or under male pseudonyms or who, in their time, were for the most part, neglected.'
Levine, Prose and actor Janeane Garofalo joined BUILD to talk about the film. The story follows Ted Swenson, a once-acclaimed author who now teaches writing at a small liberal arts college.
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This is a list of pen names used by notable authors of written work. A pen name or nom de plume is a pseudonym adopted by an author.A pen name may be used to make the author' name more distinctive, to disguise the author's gender, to distance the author from their other works, to protect the author from retribution for their writings, to combine more than one author into a single author, or ...
Some critics felt that Prose's biography of Cleopatra was weaker than her literary analysis. [5] Marissa Moss in NYJB wrote that "most effective part of the book is when Prose steps outside of history entirely and casts a critical eye on how books and movies made Cleopatra into a villain."