Rate My Professor Francine Prose

Francine Prose serves as Distinguished Writer in Residence in the Literature program at Bard College. She earned a B.A. from Radcliffe College. Prose is the author of more than twenty works of fiction, including the novels Blue Angel (2000), a finalist for the National Book Award, and A Changed Man (2005), which received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Her nonfiction includes Reading Like a Writer and Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife.

Prose is a former president of PEN American Center and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, and the Rome Prize. Her contributions to literature encompass novels, short stories, essays, and criticism.