![]() ![]() ![]() And also I wanted to write about public executions of people whose guilt had not been entirely proven. ![]() But I remember how powerful it was, and it always stayed with me. So - and I remember I was 7 at the time, I think. And so even though my mother's politics were quite different from Ethel's, her execution was a tragedy in our family. And she and her friends, all of whom lived to be quite old, remembered Ethel and knew her. Turns out, Francine Prose has a real-life family connection to the Rosenbergs.įRANCINE PROSE: My mother went to high school with Ethel Rosenberg, Seward Park High School on the Lower East Side. Her book is loosely based on Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, the suspected spies for Russia who were executed in 1953. In her latest novel, "The Vixen," she explores the moral ambiguity of 1950s America, the height of McCarthyism. The writer Francine Prose teaches literature at Bard College, and one of her classes is about totalitarianism. ![]()
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