She's not actually family, and I've never met her face - to - face, but she's married to a guy who's been one of my dearest friends since I was 20, and we're also connected by virtue of each of us having «studied with» one of my favorite writers, Francine Prose: Elizabeth at the prestigious Iowa Writers Workshop and me in Monroe Engel «s life - changing English Mb
undergraduate fiction workshop back around the time that I met Ned French.