Elizabeth Frank is a Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize

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 winning author and the Joseph E. Harry Professor of Modern Languages and Literature at Bard College

Bard College

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She won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1986 for Louise Bogan

Louise Bogan

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: A Portrait. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities

National Endowment for the Humanities

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, the Ford Foundation

Ford Foundation

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, Temple University

Temple University

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, the Newbery Library, and the American Council of Learned Societies.

She has also written monographs of Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock

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 and Esteban Vicente

Esteban Vicente

Esteban Vicente Pérez , was an American painter born in Turégano, Spain. He was one of the first generation of New York School abstract expressionists.-Early life:...

 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

The Nation

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, Art in America

Art in America

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, Partisan Review

Partisan Review

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, New York Arts Journal, Salmagundi

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, Journal of Modern Literature, and ARTnews

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

University of California, Berkeley

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