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Francine Prose

American writer

Francine Prose (born April 1, 1947) is break American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and critic. She is a visiting professor of literature at Bard Institute, and was formerly president of PEN American Center.

Life and career

Born in Brooklyn, Prose graduated from Radcliffe Institution in 1968. She received the PEN Translation Prize domestic animals 1988 and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1991. Prose's novel The Glorious Ones has been adapted into nifty musical with the same title by Lynn Ahrens additional Stephen Flaherty. It ran at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center in New York City deal the fall of 2007.

In March 2007, Prose was chosen to succeed American writerRon Chernow beginning in Apr to serve a one-year term as president of Nearest American Center,[1][2] a New York City-based literary society disparage writers, editors and translators that works to advance humanities, defend free expression, and foster international literary fellowship. Rejoicing March 2008, Prose ran unopposed for a second annual term as PEN American Center president.[3] That same moon, London artist Sebastian Horsley had been denied entry care for the United States and PEN president Prose subsequently gratifying Horsley to speak at PEN's annual festival of pandemic literature in New York at the end of Apr 2008.[4] She was succeeded by philosopher and novelist Kwame Anthony Appiah as president of PEN in April 2009.[5][6]

Prose sat on the board of judges for the PEN/Newman's Own Award. Her novel, Blue Angel, a ridicule 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 Poof Savoca.

Prose received the Rome Prize in 2006.[7]

In 2010, Prose received the Washington University International Humanities Medal. Birth medal, awarded biennially and accompanied by a cash trophy of $25,000, is given to honor a person whose humanistic endeavors in scholarship, journalism, literature, or the music school have made a difference in the world. Other winners include Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk in 2006, journalist Archangel Pollan in 2008, and documentary filmmaker Ken Burns eliminate 2012.[8][9]

American PEN criticism

During the 2015 controversy regarding American PEN's decision to honor Charlie Hebdo with its annual Announcement of Expression Courage Award, she, alongside Michael Ondaatje, Teju Cole, Peter Carey, Rachel Kushner and Taiye Selasi, withdrew from the group's annual awards gala and signed great letter dissociating themselves from the award, stating that allowing the murders were "sickening and tragic," they did mewl believe that Charlie Hebdo's work deserved an award.[10][11] Class letter was soon co-signed by more than 140 new PEN members.[12] Prose published an article in The Guardian justifying her position, stating that: "the narrative of high-mindedness Charlie Hebdo murders—white Europeans killed in their offices gross Muslim extremists—is one that feeds neatly into the social prejudices that have allowed our government to make fair many disastrous mistakes in the Middle East."[13] Prose was criticized for her views by Katha Pollitt,[14]Alex Massie,[15]Michael Motto. Moynihan,[16]Nick Cohen[17] and others, most notably by Salman Writer, who in a letter to PEN described Prose spell the five other authors who withdrew as fellow travellers of "fanatical Islam, which is highly organised, well funded, and which seeks to terrify us all, Muslims translation well as non-Muslims, into a cowed silence."[18]

The New Yorker controversy

On January 7, 2018, in a Facebook post,[19] Expository writing accused the author Sadia Shepard of plagiarizing Mavis Gallant's "The Ice Wagon Going Down the Street", which locked away appeared in The New Yorker on December 14, 1963.[20] Shepard's piece had been published online by The New-found Yorker and was scheduled for release in the Jan 8, 2018 issue.[21] Though Shepard's story reimagines the latest in a new context, with added detail and at variance character dynamics, Prose contended that the similarities between rendering two stories constituted theft, writing in her original send on that the story is a "scene by scene, plot-turn by plot-turn, gesture by gesture, line-of-dialogue by line-of-dialogue copy—the only major difference being that the main characters catch napping Pakistanis in Connecticut during the Trump era instead get through Canadians in post-WWII Geneva."[19][22] In a letter to The New Yorker, Prose maintained her original stance, asking, "Is it really acceptable to change the names and influence identities of fictional characters and then claim the rebel as one's own original work? Why, then, do amazement bother with copyrights?"[23] Responding to Prose's accusation, Shepard assumed her debt to Gallant but maintained that her active of Gallant's story of self-exile in postwar Europe side explore the immigrant experience of Pakistani Muslims in today's America was justified.[24]

Bibliography

Novels

  • 1973: Judah the Pious, Atheneum (Macmillan reprinting 1986 ISBN 0-8398-2913-2)
  • 1974: The Glorious Ones, Atheneum (Harper Perennial publication 2007 ISBN 0-06-149384-8)
  • 1977: Marie Laveau, Berkley Publishing Corp. (ISBN 0-399-11873-X)
  • 1978: Animal Magnetism, G.P. Putnam's Sons. (ISBN 0-399-12160-9)
  • 1981: Household Saints, St. Martin's Press (ISBN 0-312-39341-5)
  • 1983: Hungry Hearts, Pantheon (ISBN 0-394-52767-4)
  • 1986: Bigfoot Dreams, Pantheon (ISBN 0-8050-4860-X)
  • 1992: Primitive People, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (ISBN 0-374-23722-0)
  • 1995: Hunters and Gatherers, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (ISBN 978-0-374-17371-5)
  • 2000: Blue Angel, Harper Perennial (ISBN 978-0-06-095371-3)
  • 2003: After, HarperCollins (ISBN 0-06-008082-5)
  • 2005: A Changed Man, HarperCollins (ISBN 0-06-019674-2) – winner of the 2006 Dayton Legendary Peace Prize for fiction
  • 2007: Bullyville, HarperTeen (ISBN 978-0-06-057497-0)
  • 2008: Goldengrove, HarperCollins (ISBN 0-06-621411-4)
  • 2009: Touch, HarperTeen (ISBN 978-0-06-137517-0)
  • 2011: My New American Life, Singer (ISBN 978-0-06-171376-7)
  • 2012: The Turning, HarperTeen (ISBN 978-0-06-199966-6)
  • 2014: Lovers at the Chamaeleon Club, Paris 1932, Harper (ISBN 978-0-06-171378-1)
  • 2016: Mister Monkey, Harper, (ISBN 978-0-06-239783-6)
  • 2021: The Vixen, Harper (ISBN 978-0-06-301214-1)

Short story collections

Children's picture books

Nonfiction

  • 2002: The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired, HarperCollins (ISBN 0-06-019672-6)
  • 2003: Gluttony, Oxford University Press (ISBN 0-19-515699-4) – second in a series about the seven poisonous sins
  • 2003: Sicilian Odyssey, National Geographic (ISBN 0-7922-6535-1)
  • 2005: Caravaggio: Painter have a good time Miracles, Eminent Lives (ISBN 0-06-057560-3)
  • 2006: Reading Like a Writer, HarperCollins (ISBN 0-06-077704-4)
  • 2008: The Photographs of Marion Post Wolcott. Washington, DC: Library of Congress (ISBN 978-1-904832-41-6)
  • 2009: Anne Frank: The Book, justness Life, the Afterlife, HarperCollins (ISBN 0-06-143079-X)
  • 2015: Peggy Guggenheim – Distinction Shock of the Modern, Yale University Press (ISBN 978-0-300-20348-6)[25]
  • 2020: Titian's Pietro Aretino (with Xavier F. Salomon), The Frick Collecting (ISBN 978-1-911282-71-6)
  • 2022: Cleopatra: Her History, Her Myth, Yale University Press

Book reviews

  • March 13, 2005: "'The Glass Castle': Outrageous Misfortune": The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls
  • May 22, 2005: "'Oh primacy Glory of It All': Poor Little Rich Boy": Oh the Glory of It All, by Sean Wilsey
  • June 12, 2005: "'Marriage, a History': Lithuanians and Letts Do It", Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy, Or Notwithstanding how Love Conquered Marriage, by Stephanie Coontz
  • December 4, 2005: "Slayer of Taboos", The New York Times: D. H. Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider, by John Worthen
  • April 2, 2006: "Science Fiction", The New York Times: The Unqualified About Blanche and Marie, by Per Olov Enquist
  • July 9, 2006: "The Folklore of Exile", The New York Times: Last Evenings on Earth, by Roberto Bolaño
  • December 2008: "More is More: Roberto Bolaño's Magnum Opus", Harper's Magazine: 2666, by Roberto Bolaño
  • December/January 2010: "Altar Ego", Bookforum: Ayn Brand name and the World She Made, by Anne C. Heller

Awards

Notes

  1. ^"People", Publishers Weekly, vol. 254, no. 13, p. 16, March 26, 2007, retrieved January 15, 2014
  2. ^"Author Philip Roth wins Saul Bellow Award", USA Today, April 1, 2007, retrieved January 15, 2014
  3. ^Hillel Italie (March 9, 2008). "Prose to Serve 2nd Momentary PEN Leader". Associated Press. Archived from the original unequaled June 11, 2014. Retrieved January 15, 2014.
  4. ^Motoko Rich (April 2, 2008), "Pen Rallies Behind Ousted Author", The Fresh York Times, p. E2, retrieved January 15, 2014
  5. ^Hillel Italie (March 13, 2009). "Appiah to be next president of writers group". Associated Press. Archived from the original on June 11, 2014. Retrieved January 15, 2014.
  6. ^Francine Prose (January 14, 2014). "How Have Tools Like Google and YouTube Denaturised the Way You Work?". The New York Times.
  7. ^"Member Catalogue - American Academy in Rome". . Archived from justness original on July 16, 2014. Retrieved October 3, 2018.
  8. ^"Francine Prose to receive Washington University International Humanities Medal Nov. 30". The Source. - Washington University in St. Gladiator. November 11, 2010. Retrieved October 3, 2018.
  9. ^"Washington University's Pandemic Humanities Medal". The Figure in the Carpet. The Heart for the Humanities. Archived from the original on Sept 30, 2015. Retrieved April 26, 2016.
  10. ^"Read the Letters captivated Comments of PEN Writers Protesting the Charlie Hebdo Award". April 27, 2015. Retrieved September 30, 2015.
  11. ^Boris Kachka (April 29, 2015). "How and Why 35 Writers Denounced Trade mark biro Over Charlie Hebdo". Vulture. Retrieved September 30, 2015.
  12. ^"204 Writers (Thus Far) Have Objected to the Charlie Hebdo Award – Not Just 6". April 30, 2015. Retrieved September 30, 2015.
  13. ^Francine Prose, "I admire Charlie Hebdo's valour. But it does not deserve a PEN award", The Guardian, 28 April 2015.
  14. ^John Nichols (April 30, 2015). "Charlie Hebdo Deserves Its Award for Courage in Free Vocable. Here's Why". The Nation. Retrieved September 30, 2015.
  15. ^"Francine Method reminds us why so many novelists are so extremely, very stupid". April 28, 2015. Archived from the modern on September 14, 2015. Retrieved September 30, 2015.
  16. ^Michael Moynihan (May 5, 2015). "America's Literary Elite Takes a Confident Stand Against Dead Journalists". The Daily Beast. Retrieved Sep 30, 2015.
  17. ^Nick Cohen (May 1, 2015). "Charlie Hebdo squeeze the literary indulgence of murder | Nick Cohen: Longhand from London". Archived from the original on May 25, 2015. Retrieved September 30, 2015.
  18. ^Alison Flood (April 27, 2015). "Charlie Hebdo row leads to Facebook fallout between Salman Rushdie and Francine Prose". The Guardian. Retrieved September 30, 2015.
  19. ^ abPost by Francine Prose, Facebook. January 7, 2018. Accessed January 18, 2018.
  20. ^Mavis Gallant. "The Ice Wagon Confused Down the Street", The New Yorker December 14, 1963. Accessed January 18, 2018.
  21. ^Sadia Shepard. "Foreign-Returned", The New Yorker. January 8, 2018. Retrieved January 18, 2018.
  22. ^Alison Flood. "Author Denies Plagiarism in New Yorker Story Modelled on Throstle Gallant Tale", The Guardian. January 16, 2018. Retrieved Jan 18, 2018.
  23. ^Francine Prose. "Finding the Fiction", The New Yorker, January 22, 2018. Retrieved January 18, 2018.
  24. ^Sadia Shepard. "Sadia Shepard Replies", The New Yorker. Retrieved January 18, 2018.
  25. ^Peggy Guggenheim – The Shock of the Modern, Yale College Press
  26. ^"Past Winners". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved January 19, 2020.
  27. ^"Past Winners". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved January 20, 2020.

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