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Writer Francine Prose poses in her Greenwich Village apartment in this Feb. 26, 2007 file photo, in New York. When Prose agreed a year ago to serve as president of the American center of PEN, the international writers organization, her excitement at taking the job was weighted slightly by concerns she wouldn't have time for other projects. Prose, who runs unopposed for a second one-year term as PEN American members meet this week to select a president for 2008, has finished a novel that comes out this fall and has started another book. (AP Photo/Paul Hawthorne, file)