a prose novelist...

Francine Prose wrote a wonderful novel a few years back called Blue Angel, which dealt with the fallout from a professor's indiscretion with a young student and the eventual collapse of his career. At the time I also read Tim O'Brien's novel, A Tomcat in Love, which involved very similar themes about an older professor's libido problems with the young co-eds on campus and although a huge fan of O'Brien's work, I believe Prose's novel was better written. Now, Prose has a new novel coming out -- A Changed Man, which may be even better than her previous novel...