PROSE, FRANCINE

PROSE, FRANCINE
PROSE, FRANCINE (1947– ), U.S. novelist and short story writer. Prose was born in Brooklyn, New York, and educated at Radcliffe and Harvard. Among her works devoted to Jews and Judaism is Judah the Pious (1973), which is a story within a story. The work is a fable dealing with the religious quest that leads to moral transformation and a changed way of viewing the empirical world. Hungry Hearts (1983), with its homage to an-ski , focuses on a Yiddish theater troupe in which a dybbuk possesses an actress. In Guided Tours of Hell: Novellas (1997), the title story examines with caustic wit the uses of authenticity as a famed Holocaust survivor helps lead a tour of a concentration camp, spurring the envy of a minor American playwright. A Changed Man (2005) depicts with comic irony the ethical metamorphosis of a member of a neo-Nazi group; he becomes a spokesman for a Jewish organization promoting understanding and peace. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: J.P. Steed, "Francine Prose," in: Contemporary American Women Fiction Writers (2002), 312–17. (Lewis Fried (2nd ed.)

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

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