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About the Author

Francine Prose is the critically acclaimed author of nineteen novels, including the National Book Award Finalist Blue Angel and My New American Life. She has written three other novels for young adults: After, winner of the California Young Reader Medal, an IRA/CBC Young Adults' Choice, and a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age; Bullyville, a PW Best Book and Book Sense Children's Pick; and her most recent, Touch. She is also the author of two picture books, Leopold, the Liar of Leipzig and Rhino, Rhino, Sweet Potato. The recipient of numerous grants and honors, including a Guggenheim and a Fulbright, Francine Prose was Director's Fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. She lives in New York City.

Praise for A Changed Man…

“Mercilessly funny.”
-Janet Maslin, New York Times

“American literature’s finest satirist of professionals with problems . . . Prose knows the territory and tweaks it deliciously.”
-Carlin Romano, Philadelphia Inquirer

“Powerful, funny, and exquisitely nuanced . . . This story has a continental sweep.”
-New York Times Book Review

“Timely and clever . . . Prose carries us along on the sheer energy of her sentences.”
-Chicago Tribune

“Well-crafted and insightful.”
-San Francisco Chronicle

“A novel of ideas, and provocative ones. Class--the dirty American secret--is no secret to Prose.”
-Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times Book Review

“[A] brilliant new comic novel . . . Prose’s sense of humor is as keen as ever.”
-Miami Herald

“Piercing wit... This tale hits comic high notes even as it probes serious issues.”
-Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Francine Prose is back with a powerful new novel about the possibility of starting over.”
-Harper's Bazaar

“This book has it all: great characters, dark humor, a racing plot and important themes.”
-Newsday

“[An] artfully structured novel . . . [with] a selection of showstopping literary set pieces.”
-Entertainment Weekly

“Pitch-perfect and nuanced . . . We can’t wait to crawl into bed with this book every night.”
-New York Observer