FRANCINE PROSE, author of 1974: A Personal History (Harper), has previously written 22 works of fiction, including The Vixen; Mister Monkey; the New York Times bestseller Lovers at the Chameleon Club; Paris 1932; A Changed Man, which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize; and Blue Angel, a finalist for the National Book Award. Her nonfiction works include Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife, and Reading Like a Writer, a bestseller and classic. The recipient of numerous grants and honors, including a Guggenheim, Fulbright, and Director’s Fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, Prose is a former president of PEN America Center and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College.