Francine ProseRane Arroyo
Fiction

Renowned author Francine Prose has written over twenty books, including National Book Award finalist Blue Angel and the New York Times Bestseller, Reading Like a Writer. Her numerous 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, The New Republic, and many other publications. Prose’s newest novel, Goldengrove, follows thirteen-year-old Nico through one haunted summer after the drowning death of her sister has plunged her into grief. Francine Prose is the winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright fellowship, two NEA grants, and a PEN translation prize. She has taught at major universities throughout the United States for the past twenty years and currently serves as president of PEN American Center. She lives in New York City.