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Elaine Kraf (1936-2013) was a writer and painter. She was the author of four published works of fiction- I Am Clarence (1969), The House of Madelaine (1971), Find Him! (1977), and The Princess of 72nd Street (1979)-as well as several unpublished novels, plays, and poetry collections. She was the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts awards, a 1971 fellowship at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and a 1977 residency at Yaddo. She was born and lived in New York City.
“A raggedy genius is finally queened, bringing a fairy-tale ending to this cracked dark story of the old West Side.”—Joshua Cohen, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Netanyahus “For a novel that is in many ways about fantasy, there is a bracing wind of keen discernment that sweeps through from the first pages to the last. Though Ellen is transported into an alternate (and preferable) reality by what she calls her radiances, she maintains an eagle eye on the world she's in and the people around her: their habits, their hypocrisies, their desires, their wounds. It is one of the marvels of this book that Elaine Kraf manages to be so recklessly fantastical and so coolly perceptive at the same time.”—Jen Silverman, author of There’s Going to Be Trouble “This frenetic and glittering manifesto, wherein a woman wrestles—or dances—with the most misunderstood parts of herself, is a well-deserved reintroduction of what is bound to be a beloved classic for contemporary young women.”—Olivia Gatwood, author of Life of the Party “An electric portrait of one woman’s blazing unraveling. Elaine Kraf is one of literature’s hidden gems—that rare writer who refuses to let us look away from her bright, transcendent suffering. Her work demands a place on your bookshelf right next to Plath and Ditlevsen.”—Sarah Rose Etter, author of Ripe
