The first and highly anticipated monograph on one of the most influential painters of our time Ce...

From the acclaimed, award-winning author of Reading Like a Writer and Lovers at the Chameleon Clu...

In June, 1942, Anne Frank received a red-and-white checked diary for her thirteenth birthday, jus...

A distinguished novelist and critic inspires readers and writers with this inside look at how the...

'Prose's book is a stunning achievement. . . . Now Anne Frank stands before us. . . a figure who ...

This first volume of its kind contains the complete text of and guide to Virginia Woolf's masterp...

'With a dazzling mix of directness and metaphor, Prose captures the centrifugal and isolating for...

All loved, and were loved by, their artists, and inspired them with an intensity of emotion akin ...

The National Book Award Finalist from acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Francine Prose-...

Julie Orringer, Adam Johnson, William Gay, David Benioff, Ana Menendez, Maile Meloy, Amanda Davis...

The less-than-innocents abroad in these short novels are Americans in Europe, involved in what tu...

Mister Monkey —a screwball children’s musical about a playfully larcenous pet chimpanzee—is the k...

Francine Prose's life of Michelangelo Merisi (da Caravaggio) evokes the genius of this incomparab...

'Francine Prose has a knack for getting to the heart of human nature. . . . We are allowed to ent...

School has become a prison. No one knows why. There's no way to stop it.

Named one of the best books of 2021 by NPR, The Washington Post, and Financial Times 'No one stat...

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a 'vibrant' (New Yorker) portrait of the colorful, irr...

A spirited portrait of the colorful, irrepressible, and iconoclastic American collector who fearl...

Fleeing the terrors of her home, a Haitian woman finds that life in America is filled with its ow...

“Francine Prose is one of a handful of truly indispensable American writers.” —Gary Shteyngart

“Matching gorgeous prose to gorgeous artworks, Prose responds to each image as a moment of theatr...

Named one of the best books of 2021 by NPR, The Washington Post, and Financial Times

Four-time Edgar Award–winning author Lawrence Block’s definitive essay collection on the art of w...

The New York Times–bestselling author takes on New Agers as one woman searches for meaning in thi...

“Tender and artful . . . a gently spiritual celebration of life.” —New York Times Book Review

In her entertaining and edifying New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invit...

'An essay by Xavier F. Salomon, Frick Curator, paired with a contribution by author Francine Pros...

A richly imagined and stunningly inventive literary masterpiece of love, art, and betrayal, explo...

Originally published: New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981.

Much more than a word list, the Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus is a browsable source of inspi...

George Eliot’s beloved classic novel—hailed by Virginia Woolf as “masterful”—follows the life, lo...

Four-time Edgar Award–winning author Lawrence Block’s definitive essay collection on the art of w...

In these two audacious novellas, Americans abroad find that losing themselves in another culture ...

Stories of innocence lost, from a master observer of modern life

'Francine Prose is a world-classsatirist who's also a world-class storyteller.'-Russell BanksFran...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Reading Like a Writer and A Changed Man, an early n...

A novel about learning to live in a world stranger than any tabloid headline

Four-time Edgar Award–winning author Lawrence Block’s definitive essay collection on the art of w...

Un lugar llamado Goldengrove

In this brilliant collection, the follow-up to her New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Write...

Goldengrove is an emotionally powerful novel about adolescent love and loss from Francine Prose, ...

Everybody in town knows we lost him forever when the North Tower collapsed.

In seventeenth-century Poland, a rabbi takes on the education of a king

Four-time Edgar Award–winning author Lawrence Block’s definitive essay collection on the art of w...

Revelations of the mysterious, contradictory heart of everyday life

A richly imagined and stunningly inventive literary masterpiece of love, art, and betrayal, explo...

Named one of the best books of 2021 by NPR, The Washington Post, and Financial Times

Shrouded in myth, the legends of Cleopatra have captivated writers and artists for centuries. Exp...