Francine Prose is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and critic. She is a visiting professor of literature at Bard College, and was formerly president of PEN American Center.
Prose at the 2012 Brooklyn Book Festival
Prose at the 2010 Brooklyn Book Festival
Bard College is a private liberal arts college in the hamlet of Annandale-on-Hudson, in the town of Red Hook, in New York State. The campus overlooks the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains within the Hudson River Historic District—a National Historic Landmark.
John Bard, founder of St. Stephen's College
Ward Manor House serves as a dormitory
Montgomery Place, historic estate and museum
Blithewood Manor, historic estate housing the Levy Economics Institute