About Francesca Lia Block
Francesca Lia Block was born, and still lives, in Los Angeles with her husband, daughter and a springer spaniel named Vincent Van Go-Go Boots.
Like the star of her first novel, Weetzie Bat, Francesca once had bleached-blond hair, wore engineer boots with 1950s prom dresses, drove around in a red-and-white 1955 pontiac convertible and slammed to bands in underground clubs. She found the name 'Weetzie' on the license plate of a pink Pinto when she was sixteen, 'My Secret Agent Lover Man' in a graffiti scrawl, and other characters' names from what she describes as her 'rampaging subconscious'.
The daughter of a poet and a painter, Francesca Lia Block's work has been influenced by the visual arts, by her love of Greek myths and fairytales, as well as by music and dance. While at the University of California at Berkeley, her influences expanded to include the magic-realist fiction of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Isabel Allende, as well as the modernist poetry of Hilda Doolittle. She is currently developing an original series for MTV and a screenplay of Weetzie Bat for cinema.
Like the star of her first novel, Weetzie Bat, Francesca once had bleached-blond hair, wore engineer boots with 1950s prom dresses, drove around in a red-and-white 1955 pontiac convertible and slammed to bands in underground clubs. She found the name 'Weetzie' on the license plate of a pink Pinto when she was sixteen, 'My Secret Agent Lover Man' in a graffiti scrawl, and other characters' names from what she describes as her 'rampaging subconscious'.
The daughter of a poet and a painter, Francesca Lia Block's work has been influenced by the visual arts, by her love of Greek myths and fairytales, as well as by music and dance. While at the University of California at Berkeley, her influences expanded to include the magic-realist fiction of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Isabel Allende, as well as the modernist poetry of Hilda Doolittle. She is currently developing an original series for MTV and a screenplay of Weetzie Bat for cinema.
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Series
Weetzie Bat
1. Weetzie Bat (1989)
2. Witch Baby (1991)
3. Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys (1992)
4. Missing Angel Juan (1993)
5. Baby Be-Bop (1995)
Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books (1998)
Beautiful Boys: Two Weetzie Bat Books (2004)
Goat Girls: Two Weetzie Bat Books (omnibus) (2004)
Necklace of Kisses (2005)
1. Weetzie Bat (1989)
2. Witch Baby (1991)
3. Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys (1992)
4. Missing Angel Juan (1993)
5. Baby Be-Bop (1995)
Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books (1998)
Beautiful Boys: Two Weetzie Bat Books (2004)
Goat Girls: Two Weetzie Bat Books (omnibus) (2004)
Necklace of Kisses (2005)
Novels
Moon Harvest (1978)
Ecstasia (1993)
Primavera (1994)
The Hanged Man (1994)
I Was a Teenage Fairy (1998)
Zine Scene (1998)
Violet and Claire (1999)
Nymph (2000)
Echo (2001)
Wasteland (2003)
Ruby (2006) (with Carmen Staton)
Psyche in a Dress (2006)
Quakeland (2008)
Blood Roses (2008)
How to (Un)cage a Girl (2008)
The Waters and the Wild (2009)
Pretty Dead (2009)
Evidence of Angels (2009) (with Suza Scalora)
Ecstasia (1993)
Primavera (1994)
The Hanged Man (1994)
I Was a Teenage Fairy (1998)
Zine Scene (1998)
Violet and Claire (1999)
Nymph (2000)
Echo (2001)
Wasteland (2003)
Ruby (2006) (with Carmen Staton)
Psyche in a Dress (2006)
Quakeland (2008)
Blood Roses (2008)
How to (Un)cage a Girl (2008)
The Waters and the Wild (2009)
Pretty Dead (2009)
Evidence of Angels (2009) (with Suza Scalora)
Collections
Season of Green: Poems (poems) (1979)
The Rose and the Beast: Nine Fairy Tales (1993)
Girl Goddess 9: Nine Stories (1996)
Open Letter to Quiet Light (poems) (2009)
The Rose and the Beast: Nine Fairy Tales (1993)
Girl Goddess 9: Nine Stories (1996)
Open Letter to Quiet Light (poems) (2009)
Links to other websites
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