FRANCINE PROSE

Connie was always great-is always great-to gossip with, because she's so free of malevolence that you never have that kind of icky feeling after gossiping with most people, the way that you can feel kind of unclean after gossiping. Because with Connie it's just information. Francine Prose is the author of twenty-one works of fiction, including Mister Monkey (Harper, 2016), the New York Times best seller, Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 (Harper, 2014), A Changed Man (Harper, 2006), which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and Blue Angel (Harper, 2006), a finalist for the National Book Award. The recipient of numerous grants and honors, including a Guggenheim, a Fulbright, and a Director's Fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, she 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.