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Frances Kazan (born 1946) is an English-born American author, best known for her 2002 historical novel Halide’s Gift.
The official website of the English-born novelist Frances Kazan. Her book "Halide’s Gift" has been translated and sold worldwide. She is also a lecturer, producer and arts supporter.
English born Frances Kazan is a writer, lecturer, producer and arts supporter. Her most recent novel The Dervish (published April 2013 by Opus Press, New York) is an adventure story set in Istanbul and Angora ,modern day Ankara, in 1919, during the rise of Ataturk and the creation of Modern Turkey.
Frances Kazan has two adult children, and has lived in New York City for more than thirty years. Every week she volunteers at a Bronx shelter run by Sanctuary for Families – a private non profit organization that helps abused women and children.
Kazan has written a politically intriguing and uniquely stylized novel with a subject matter that is refreshingly untrodden. A master of Turkish studies, she conveys this story with the mystique of billowing incense. (review of Halide’s Gift)
Set in late Ottoman Constantinople, Frances Kazan’s second novel is loosely based on the early life of Halide Edib and tells the story of two sisters “bound by an extraordinary friendship, and torn apart by their love of radically different men.” “Halide’s Gift” was translated into seven languages.
Frances Kazan. Writer. I have been a member of the Library since 1978. There were the early years, when I wrote my first novel in the communal writing room. In those days, typewriters were not permitted in the writing rooms; we wrote in longhand.
