Francine Prose | Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife

Francine Prose is former president of the PEN American Center and author of more than 20 books. Her fictional critique of academia, Blue Angels, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and her nonfiction guide to writing, Reading Like a Writer, was a New York Times bestseller. In her new book, Prose considers the diary of Anne Frank as a work of art (revised many times by the author and meant for publication) and thoroughly investigates the book's contentious afterlife. A review in the Ne...