Sara B. Franklin is a nationally-bestselling writer and a professor at New York University’s Gallatin School for Individualized Study, where she teaches courses on food, oral history, embodied culture, and non-fiction writing. She has written for publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Literary Hub, The Nation, and Travel & Leisure.Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Her latest book, The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America, was published by Atria Books in 2024. She is the editor of the acclaimed Edna Lewis: At the Table with An American Original, the first full-length examination and celebration of one of the most influential figures in U.S. food history. And she co-wrote the James Beard-award finalist The Phoenicia Diner Cookbook, which was called one of 2020’s “essential” cookbooks by The Independent UK, celebrated as a best cookbook of the season by The New York Times, and named one of the best cookbooks of the year by Esquire.
Books in order of publication:
Edna Lewis: At the Table with an American Original – 2018
The Phoenicia Diner Cookbook: Dishes and Dispatches From the Catskill Mountains – 2020
The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America – 2024
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