Francesca Lia Block
Francesca Lia Block was born in 1962, Francesca Lia Block has written at least 74 books. Their most popular book is Weetzie Bat with 46 saves with an average rating of 3⭐.
Author Bio
Francesca Lia Block, M.F.A., is the author of more than twenty-five books of fiction, non-fiction, short stories and poetry, and has written screenplay adaptations of her work. She received the Spectrum Award, the Phoenix Award, the ALA Rainbow Award and the 2005 Margaret A. Edwards Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as other citations from the American Library Association and from the New York Times Book Review, School Library Journal and Publisher’s Weekly.
Her work has been translated into Italian, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish and Portuguese. Francesca has also published stories, poems, essays and interviews in The Los Angeles Times, The L.A. Review of Books, Spin, Nylon, Black Clock, The Fairy Tale Review and Rattle among others. In addition to writing, Francesca is a beloved and devoted teacher. She was named Writer-in-Residence at Pasadena City College in 2014 and in 2018-19 became a Visiting Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Redlands where she was a finalist for Professor of the Year award. Currently she teaches fiction at UCLA Extension, Antioch University, and privately in Los Angeles where she was born and raised.
2016 • 42 Readers • 388 pages • 3.7
#1 of 2 in Love in the Time of Global Warming
2013 • 37 Readers • 240 pages • 3.2
#1 of 2 in New Fairy Tales
2010 • 33 Readers • 576 pages • 3.7
3 Short Stories from Hell
2010 • 21 Readers • 262 pages • 3
16 Readers • 3.3
2000 • 15 Readers • 244 pages • 4
1999 • 12 Readers • 169 pages • 3.3
1998 • 11 Readers • 192 pages • 4.2
1994 • 11 Readers • 164 pages • 3.5
2006 • 9 Readers • 128 pages • 2
#3 of 6 in Weetzie Bat
1992 • 9 Readers • 128 pages • 3.8
#2 of 2 in Love in the Time of Global Warming
2014 • 8 Readers • 224 pages • 3.7
2009 • 8 Readers • 160 pages • 3.3
1996 • 6 Readers • 192 pages • 4.3
2 Singing the Dogstar Blues
2005 • 6 Readers • 530 pages • 3
2014 • 5 Readers • 184 pages
2010 • 5 Readers • 473 pages
2009 • 4 Readers • 368 pages
2008 • 4 Readers • 368 pages
2010 • 4 Readers • 3.3
2006 • 4 Readers • 224 pages • 4
1998 • 3 Readers • 121 pages • 4
3 Readers • 5
1995 • 3 Readers • 3
2000 • 3 Readers
2012 • 3 Readers • 273 pages • 2
2015 • 3 Readers • 181 pages • 3
2021 • 3 Readers • 3 pages • 3
2008 • 3 Readers • 150 pages
2008 • 3 Readers • 224 pages
2009 • 2 Readers • 144 pages • 3
2016 • 2 Readers • 176 pages
1994 • 2 Readers • 189 pages
2008 • 2 Readers • 208 pages
2010 • 2 Readers • 632 pages
2014 • 2 Readers • 224 pages
2003 • 2 Readers • 192 pages
2 Readers
2018 • 2 Readers • 304 pages
2 Readers • 249 pages • 4
2009 • 2 Readers
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2013 • 1 Reader
2009 • 1 Reader • 128 pages
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1 Reader • 114 pages
1 Reader • 5
1996 • 1 Reader • 85 pages
1 Reader
2010 • 1 Reader
1 Reader • 284 pages
1996 • 1 Reader • 160 pages
2009 • 1 Reader • 61 pages
1 Reader
2008 • 1 Reader • 372 pages • 4
2013 • 1 Reader • 123 pages
2011 • 1 Reader • 80 pages
2022 • 1 Reader
2010 • 1 Reader • 378 pages
2009 • 1 Reader
2011 • 1 Reader
2013 • 1 Reader • 96 pages
2021 • 1 Reader
2000 • 229 pages
