Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility and the Art of Adaptation: Francine Prose, Radhika Jones and Sadie Stein in Conversation with Alexandra Schwartz

Francine Prose is the author of twenty-three works of fiction, including the highly acclaimed Five Weeks in the Country; The Vixen; Mister Monkey; the New York Times bestseller Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932; A Changed Man, which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize; and Blue Angel, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her works of nonfiction include the highly praised 1974: A Personal History, Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife, and the New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer, which has become a classic. The recipient of numerous grants and honors, including a Guggenheim and a Fulbright and a Director’s Fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, Prose is a former president of PEN American Center, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College.

Sadie Stein is a writer, critic, and editor whose work focuses on books and culture. A lifelong New Yorker, she is an editor at the New York Times Book Review and lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with her husband and son.

Radhika Jones, the former editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair, is at work on a memoir titled Bookish. She previously held senior editorial roles at The New York Times and TIME magazine. She has a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia, and serves on the boards of CARE and The Paris Review.