Francesca Lia Block channeled some of the strife of her personal life into 'Love in the Time of Global Warming,' including destruction of her beloved Los Angeles. She discusses that and more.

Francesca Lia Block is the real thing, a real writer. She doesn’t talk about it; she does it. She can’t even recall how many books she’s written. She doesn’t cloister herself, either, in some vaunted ...

Francesca Lia Block's Weetzie Bat books divide down gender lines in two paperback collections: Beautiful Boys (which contains Missing Angel Juan and Baby Be-Bop) and Goat Girls (which consists of ...

Francesca Lia Block is the 2005 recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association for her contribution to writing for young adults.

Author Francesca Lia Block uses lush, poetic language to evoke a dreamy, mystical Los Angeles in her Dangerous Angels series. She does this while skillfully combining the worlds of 1980s punk-rock ...

Francesca Lia Block had what she called a “strange and mysterious moment” after getting lost while exploring the area surrounding the tiny Salton Sea community of Bombay Beach. “Mapquest led ...

How Eve Babitz and Francesca Lia Block Made Los Angeles Literary The novels "Sex and Rage" and "Weetzie Bat" shine a light on the City of Angels.

Francesca Lia Block's Weetzie Bat books divide down gender lines in two paperback collections: Beautiful Boys (which contains Missing Angel Juan and Baby Be-Bop) and Goat Girls (which consists of ...

Francesca Lia Block, the author of more than 30 books and creator of the popular LA character Weetzie Bat, writes on Facebook today that even though her mortgage is current, she is in a refi ...

Weetzie Bat is a short novel by Francesca Lia Block that reads like a candied love song for young, artistic misfits. If you’ve never heard of it, think Perks of Being a Wallflower meets Catcher ...

When Francesca Lia Block sat down to write her latest young adult novel, “Love in the Time of Global Warming” (Holt Books for Young Readers: 240 pp., $16.99), she took her beloved hometown of ...