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 New York Times called it "an impressively far-reaching critical work, an elegant study both edifying and entertaining...full of keen observations and fascinating disputes."