Elizabeth Frank (born September 14, 1945) is an American

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, biographer,

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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'' (Knopf, 1985). Frank is also the author of ''

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'' (Abbeville Press, 1983) and the novel ''Cheat and Charmer'' (Random House 2004), as well as the

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s '' Esteban Vicente'' (Hudson Hills, 1995) and '' Karen Gunderson: The Dark World of Light'' (Abbeville, 2016). Her

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“Fires” is included in the

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''It Occurs to Me That I Am America'' (Atria Books, 2018). Along with co-translator Deliana Simeonova, she published translations from the Bulgarian of two novels about

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in the twentieth century by Bulgarian novelist and

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Angel Wagenstein: ''Farewell, Shanghai and Isaac’s Torah'' (Other Press, both 2008). She is the recipient of fellowships from the

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, the

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, the Newberry Library, and the American Council of Learned Societies. Frank has also written numerous articles on literature and art in such publications as the '' New York Times Book Review'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Art in America'', '' Partisan Review'', '' Salmagundi'', and '' ARTnews''. She has published short stories, in translation by Bulgarian author Zdravka Evtimova, in the Bulgarian journal, '' Suvremenik''. She attended the International School of Geneva and Bennington College, and earned her earned B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from the

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. Her father was

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-nominated writer-producer-director Melvin Frank.

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