Prose, Francine

Profiles nine women who served as muses to famous artists, discussing how each of them inspired the works of their artistic counterpart.

In the aftermath of a nearby school shooting, a grief and crisis counselor takes over Central High School and enacts increasingly harsh measures to control students, while those who do not comply disappear.

In the aftermath of a nearby school shooting, a grief and crisis counselor takes over Central High School and enacts increasingly harsh measures to control students, while those who do not comply disappear.

Though mocked by the rest of the villagers, poor Schmuel the shoemaker turns out to be a very special person.

Ninth-grader Maisie's concepts of friendship, loyalty, self-acceptance, and truth are tested to their limit after a school bus incident involving three boys who have been her best friends since early childhood.

Profiles nine women who served as muses to famous artists, discussing how each of them inspired the works of their artistic counterpart. In a brilliant, wry, and provocative book, National Book Award finalist Francine Prose explores the complex relationship between the artist and his muse. In so doing, she illuminates with great sensitivity and intelligence the elusive emotional wellsprings of the creative process.

A teen boy becomes the babysitter for two very peculiar children on a haunted island in this modern retelling of The Turn of the Screw.

Presents a biography of late sixteenth-century Italian Renaissance painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, and chronicles his life, later years in exile in Naples, Malta, and Sicily, and his influence on later generations of artists.

Presents seventeen short stories chosen from hundreds of nominations submitted by writing programs such as the Iowa Writers' Workshop and John Hopkins.

Explains how a botched mission by two angels created the town of fools known as Chelm.