Anne Frank's Diary Rises from Reject Pile to Bestseller

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/06/Anne_Frank_The_Book_the_Life_the_Afterlife

Author Francine Prose chronicles the arduous path that Anne Frank's diary traveled to get published in the United States. "The book was turned down everywhere," says Prose, because it was criticized as being "boring" and "domestic."

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Francine Prose talks about Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife. With the understanding one great writer has for another, Prose deftly parses the artistry, ambition, and enduring influence of the text millions have come to know as The Diary of a Young Girl. - Book Passage

Francine Prose is the author of many bestselling books of fiction, including A Changed Man and Blue Angel, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and the nonfiction New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer.

Her novel, Household Saints, was adapted for a movie by Nancy Savoca. Another novel, The Glorious Ones, has been adapted into a musical of the same name by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, which ran at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre at Lincoln Center in New York City in the Fall of 2007. Her latest novel, Goldengrove, was published in September 2008.

She is the president of PEN American Center. She lives in New York City.

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[lukkbox]

@jewishcrimenetwork

the jews hate truth because the world they have built is based upon lies

truth destroys lies, destroys their world, they are scared

people hate things they fear

[jewishcrimenetwork]

@vgyu8gf68 Every single day more and more people learn the truth. There is no way to stop it. Those, like you, supporting lies will be a minority in no time.

[rosabaca21]

We love you Anne Frank

R.I.P Anne and the victims of the Holocaust

[extremlybored45]

why do people say that the diary was a fraud?...

[61TUNER]

@theQbelek I,M CURIOUS AS TO WHY YOU,RE COMMENTING ON THIS VID,AND HAVE A UN-AVAYLABLE CHANNEL.

[61TUNER]

@TheManolakis THEY WERE,NT GOOD GUYS. THEY WERE TOOLS.

[61TUNER]

ONE MORE TIME PEOPLE. JUDAISM IS MOT A NATION,OR A RACE. IT IS A RELIGION. IF YOU CALL SOMEONE WHO HATES JEWS A RACIST IT SHOWS YOUR IGNORANCE. THEY AS A RELIGIOUS WHOLE ARE NOT THE PROBLEM. THE PROBLEM LIES IN THOSE OF THEIR BELIEF WHO ACTUALLY DO HOARD WEALTH,AND USE IT ,AND SOCIAL INFLUENCE TO SPREAD THEIR COVERT HATE,AND LIES TO CONTROL OTHER RELIGIOUS BELIEFS. MOST ESPECIALLY CHRISTIANS. LEARN THE TRUTH,OR SHUT YOUR OWN RACIST MOUTHS,UNTIL YOU LEARN THE MEANING OF RACISM. IDIOTS!

[AnnaGoldenleafPro]

@vgyu8gf68EatShit Bish!!!! Im Jewish!!! I Aint Gay!!! I'm Straight!!!

[aeroplus]

Their final determination was that the diary is authentic, and their findings were published in what has become known as the "Critical Edition" of the diary. On 23 March 1990, the Hamburg Regional Court confirmed its authenticity.[51]

[aeroplus]

With Otto Frank's death in 1980, the original diary, including letters and loose sheets, were willed to the Dutch Institute for War Documentation,[70] who commissioned a forensic study of the diary through the Netherlands Ministry of Justice in 1986. They examined the handwriting against known examples and found that they matched, and determined that the paper, glue and ink were readily available during the time the diary was said to have been written.

[aeroplus]

@TheManolakis yeah the holocaust was fake? if the holocaust is fake then WW2 and all its atrocities are just a product of hallucination... Hitler killed people simply because they are Jews..thats unforgivable through the keen eyes of God...Curse to those who planned and become part of the holocaust.... i am not a jew, but why you people hate jews