Elizabeth Frank

Elizabeth Frank (born September 14, 1945 in Los Angeles) is an American writer and the Joseph E. Harry Professor of Modern Languages and Literature at Bard College,[1] who won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for Louise Bogan: A Portrait (1985).[2][3] She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Ford Foundation, Temple University, the Newbery Library, and the American Council of Learned Societies.[1]

Frank has also written monographs of Jackson Pollock and Esteban Vicente, as well as numerous articles on literature, art, and literary and art criticism in such publications as the New York Times Book Review, New York Times Magazine, The Nation, Art in America, Partisan Review, New York Arts Journal, Salmagundi, Journal of Modern Literature, and ARTnews.[1]

She earned B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley.[1]

Her father was Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and filmmaker Melvin Frank.

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