Frances Kazan (born 1946) is an English-born American author, best known for her 2002

historical novel Historical fiction is a literary genre in which a fictional plot takes place in the setting of particular real historical events. Although the term is commonly used as a synonym for historical fiction literature, it can also be applied to oth ...

'' Halide’s Gift''.

Biography

Born Frances Wright in

Brighton Brighton ( ) is a seaside resort in the city status in the United Kingdom, city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England, south of London. Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze Age Britain, Bronze Age, R ...

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. She has a B.A. in English literature and an M.A. in Turkish Studies from

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. She is a longtime resident of

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. Kazan has been married twice: to Peter Rudge, former manager of

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and

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; and to the director and writer

Elia Kazan Elias Kazantzoglou (, ; September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003), known as Elia Kazan ( ), was a Greek-American film and theatre director, producer, screenwriter and actor, described by ''The New York Times'' as "one of the most honored and inf ...

, from 1981 until his death in 2003. She has two adult children, Joseph and Charlotte Rudge. From 1997 to 2005, Kazan served as New York correspondent for ''Cornucopia'', an English language magazine about Turkish culture. Frances Kazan was instrumental in the 2009 Target Margin Theater production of '' Ten Blocks on the Camino Real'', the one-act play by

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that Elia Kazan workshopped in 1949 at the Actors Studio; and ''The Really Big Once'', a 2010 Target Margin Theater production about the creation of Tennessee Williams’s 1953 play '' Camino Real''. Both productions were directed by Target Margin Theater founder David Herskovits. Sometimes described as a foray by Williams into the avant garde, ''Camino Real'' was the result of a collaboration between Williams and director Elia Kazan.

Works

* ''Good Night, Little Sister'' (hardcover: Stein & Day, 1985; paperback: Collins UK, 1986) centers on a young woman who marries a rock star and becomes caught up in the world of rock ‘n’ roll. * ''Halide’s Gift'' (hardcover: Random House, 2001; paperback, Random House, 2003) is a fictional account of the life of

Halide Edib Adıvar Halide Edip Adıvar ( , sometimes spelled Halidé Edib in English; 11 June 1884 – 9 January 1964) was a Turkish people, Turkish novelist, teacher, and a nationalist and Feminism, feminist intellectual. She was best known for her novels criticiz ...

, the Turkish novelist, feminist, and nationalist politician. Halide’s Gift has been translated into six languages. * ''Halide Edip ve Amerika'' (''Halide Edip and America''), (Bağlam Yayınları, 1995; translated from the English by Bernar Kutlu), is a non-fiction book about the influence of American ideas and education on Halide Edib.

References

External links

Official website
* * , Wired for Books (1986) {{DEFAULTSORT:Kazan, Frances Living people English women writers New York University alumni Writers from Brighton Kazan family 1946 births