Frederic prokosch biography

Prokosch was named a Commander in the Ordre des Arts et Lettres by the French government in 1984 and awarded the Volterra Prize two years later. His novels have been translated into 15 languages. ^ Robert Greenfield, Dreamer’s Journey: The Life and Writings of Frederic Prokosch (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2010), p. 17, 400.

Prokosch was born in Madison, Wisconsin, into an intellectual family that travelled widely. His father, Eduard Prokosch, an Austrian immigrant, was Professor of Germanic Languages at Yale University at the time of his death in 1938. Prokosch was graduated from Haverford College in 1925 and received a Ph.D. in English in 1932 from Yale University.

Prokosch invented a role for the melancholic ingénue before it became fashionable. GRASSE;FRANCE - OCTOBER 18: American writer Frederic Prokosch (1908-1989) poses at home in Grasse,France on the 18th of October 1987. (Photo by Ulf Andersen/Getty Images) Literary fame is a fickle beast.

During World War II, Prokosch was a cultural attaché at the American Legation in Sweden. He spent most of the remainder of his life in Europe, where he led a peripatetic existence. His interests were sports ( tennis and squash ), lepidoptery, and the printing of limited editions of poems that he admired.