Francine Prose (born April 1, 1947) is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and critic. She is a visiting professor of literature at Bard College and was formerly president of PEN American Center.
Books in order of publication:
Novels
1973: Judah the Pious, Atheneum (Macmillan reissue 1986
1974: The Glorious Ones, Atheneum (Harper Perennial reissue 2007)
1977: Marie Laveau, Berkley Publishing Corp.
1978: Animal Magnetism, G.P. Putnam’s Sons.
1981: Household Saints, St. Martin’s Press
1983: Hungry Hearts, Pantheon
1986: Bigfoot Dreams, Pantheon
1992: Primitive People, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
1995: Hunters and Gatherers, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
2000: Blue Angel, Harper Perennial
2003: After, HarperCollins
2005: A Changed Man, HarperCollins– winner of the 2006 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for fiction
2007: Bullyville, HarperTeen
2008: Goldengrove, HarperCollins
2009: Touch, HarperTeen
2011: My New American Life, Harper
2012: The Turning, HarperTeen
2014: Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932, Harper
2016: Mister Monkey, Harper
2021: The Vixen, Harper
Short story collections
1988: Women and Children First, Pantheon
1997: Guided Tours of Hell, Metropolitan
1998: The Peaceable Kingdom, Farrar Straus & Giroux
Children’s picture books
2005: Leopold, the Liar of Leipzig, illustrated by Einav Aviram, HarperCollins
Nonfiction
2002: The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired, HarperCollins
2003: Gluttony, Oxford University Press– second in a series about the seven deadly sins
2003: Sicilian Odyssey, National Geographic
2005: Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles, Eminent Lives
2006: Reading Like a Writer, HarperCollins
2008: The Photographs of Marion Post Wolcott. Washington, DC: Library of Congress
2009: Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife, HarperCollins
2015: Peggy Guggenheim – The Shock of the Modern, Yale University Press
2020: Titian’s Pietro Aretino (with Xavier F. Salomon), The Frick Collection
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