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Elizabeth Frank

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American academic

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Elizabeth Frank is an American novelist, biographer, art critic and translator. She has been a member of the literature faculty of Bard College since 1982 and is the Joseph E. Harry Professor of Modern Languages and Literature at Bard College.

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1986Pulitzer Prize for Biography

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Elizabeth Frank is an American novelist, biographer, art critic and translator. She has been a member of the literature faculty of Bard College since 1982 and is the Joseph E. Harry Professor of Modern Languages and Literature at Bard College. In 1986 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for Louise Bogan: A Portrait. Frank is also the author of Jackson Pollock and the novel Cheat and Charmer, as well as the monographs Esteban Vicente and Karen Gunderson: The Dark World of Light. Her short story “Fires” is included in the anthology It Occurs to Me That I Am America. Along with co-translator Deliana Simeonova, she published translations from the Bulgarian of two novels about Jews in the twentieth century by Bulgarian novelist and screenwriter Angel Wagenstein: Farewell, Shanghai and Isaac’s Torah.

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Born 1945 · age 81
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