Anne Frank

By Francine Prose

Subjects: Creative writing, Personal narratives, Warfare and Defence, Achterhuis (Frank, Anne), History and criticism, Authorship, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Writing skill

Description: In June, 1942, Anne Frank received a red-and-white checked diary for her thirteenth birthday, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding from the Nazis in an Amsterdam attic. For two years, with ever-increasing maturity, Anne crafted a memoir that has become one of the most compelling, intimate, and important documents of modern history. Francine Prose argues that the diary of Anne Frank is as much a deliberate work of art as it is an historical record, noting its literary merits and thoroughly investigating the diary's unique afterlife as one of the world's most read, and banned, books.