About Elizabeth Frank
Born 1945. Elizabeth Frank is an American biographer, writer and literary scholar.
Elizabeth Frank (born September 14, 1945) is an American novelist, biographer, art critic 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). and Bennington College, and earned her earned B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley.
Her father was Academy Award-nominated writer-producer-director Melvin Frank.
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Elizabeth Frank was born on 14 September 1945 in Los Angeles.
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