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January 2001 “BFS turned me into a writer and the person I am today. The education I got at BFS was concentrated and more useful than my four years at Harvard.” —Francine Prose ’64 One of the most prominent reviewers and essayists around, BFS graduate Francine Prose ’64 has been lauded for her work in both fiction and nonfiction. Known for her satiric wit and dead-on honesty in her observations of human behavior, Francine produces work that is insightful, funny, and at times controversial. The author of ten novels, she has most recently been praised for Blue Angel, which was nominated for a National Book Award in 2000. Author Russell Banks described Blue Angel as “a smart-bomb attack on academic hypocrisy... Francine Prose... is as politically incorrect on the subject of sex as Catullus and twice as funny. What a deep relief it is, in these dumbed-down Late Empire days, to read a world class satirist who’s also a world class story-teller.” Francine’s work also includes Bigfoot Dreams, Hungry Hearts, Household Saints, Hunters and Gatherers, Primitive People, Women and Children First, and Guided Tours of Hell. She has 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 American Short Stories, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Observer, Art News, The Yale Review, and numerous other publications. Francine is a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities, and a Director’s Fellow of the New York Public Library’s Center for Scholars and Writers—where she was among the first 15 writers to receive this honor to work in a “hub of intellectual study that is a cross between a writers’ colony and think tank, where writers have the resources of the entire library at their disposal.” She is a contributing editor at Harper’s, Elle, and Bomb, and writes regularly on art for The Wall Street Journal. The winner of Guggenheim and Fulbright fellowships, two NEA grants, and a PEN translation prize, she has taught at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, the University of Arizona, and the University of Utah. Last year, Francine was the honored guest at the BFS graduation, where she received the George Fox Distinguished Alumni Award, a recognition given to BFS alumni whose professional and personal accomplishments exemplify the ideals put forth in the school’s mission. |
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