Francine Prose is the author of twen­ty-one works of fic­tion includ­ing, most recent­ly, the high­ly acclaimed nov­el, Mis­ter Mon­key, and the New York Times best­selling nov­el, Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932. Her nov­el, A Changed Man, won the Day­ton Lit­er­ary Peace Prize, and Blue Angel was a final­ist for the Nation­al Book Award. Her works of non­fic­tion include the high­ly praised Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The After­life, and the New York Times best­seller Read­ing Like a Writer, which has become a clas­sic. The recip­i­ent of numer­ous grants and hon­ors, includ­ing a Guggen­heim and a Ful­bright, a Direc­tor’s Fel­low at the Cen­ter for Schol­ars and Writ­ers at the New York Pub­lic Library, Francine 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 lives in New York City.