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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.
This beautiful, fictionalized biography of Halide Edip by Frances Kazan brings the hitherto cloistered world of the Ottoman and its women, brilliantly alive. A joy to read, specially by those who know and love Turkey and Turkish culture.
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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.
Frances Kazan. Random House, 2001 - Fiction - 345 pages. Set in magical, mystical Constantinople in the closing years of the nineteenth century, Halide's Gift is the story of a family...
