Joan Frank

About The Author

Joan Frank is the award-winning author of twelve books of literary fiction and essays including Because You Have To: A Writing Life and Try to Get Lost: Essays on Travel and Place (UNM Press). She lives with her husband, playwright Bob Duxbury, in the North Bay Area of California.

Books by Joan Frank

Late Work

A Literary Autobiography of Love, Loss, and What I Was Reading

By Joan Frank
Useful for writers at any stage of development, Late Work offers a seasoned artist's thinking through the exploration of issues, paradoxes, and crises of faith.
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Try to Get Lost

Essays on Travel and Place

By Joan Frank
Try to Get Lost is a bold, engaging disquisition on the perils and promises of travel: both cranky and wise, worldly and cultivated, humorous and rueful, its every sentence sparkles. All in all, it is thoroughly entertaining, a sophisticated pleasure.--Phillip Lopate, author of A Mother's Tale
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