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Elizabeth Frank

I was born in Los Angeles and spent my high school years in London and Geneva. Then, after two and a half years at Bennington, I transferred to U.C. Berkeley, where I finished my undergraduate work and went on to receive a Ph.D. in 1973. I began working on a critical biography of Louise Bogan that year and published Louise Bogan: A Portrait (Knopf) in 1985. Throughout the seventies and eighties I did a fair amount of art writing, reviewing shows in Artnews and Art in America, and publishing a brief introduction to the work of Jackson Pollock with Abbeville Press in 1983. A monograph, Esteban Vicente (Hudson Hills), came out in 1995. My first novel, Cheat and Charmer, was published by Random House in 2004. I continue to write fiction, and have co-translated two novels, forthcoming from Other Press, by the Bulgarian screenwriter-novelist Angel Wagenstein. Since 1982 I have been a member of the literature faculty at Bard College.