Ruth Franklin is an American literary critic. She is a former editor at The New Republic and an Adjunct professor at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. Her first biography, Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography and was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2016.
Books in order of publication:
A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction (2010)
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life (2016)
The Many Lives of Anne Frank – 2025
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