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.

2 days ago · Ruth Franklin, an award-winning, Baltimore-born author, editor and literary critic, revisits the life and legacy of the Dutch-Jewish teenager — who perished in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in early 1945 at the age of 15 — with her new biography, “The Many Lives of Anne Frank” (Yale University Publishing). ...

5 days ago · The Many Lives of Anne Frank By Ruth Franklin Yale University Press, 440 pages, $30. The title of Ruth Franklin’s The Many Lives of Anne Frank exudes a tragic and no doubt purposeful irony. A ...

1 day ago · Book cover design for “The Many Lives of Anne Frank” by Ruth Franklin The last known photograph of Anne taken in May 1942, two months before she and her family went into hiding. When she was a ...

Jan 24, 2025 · Book Review. The Many Lives of Anne Frank. By Ruth Franklin Yale University Press: 440 pages, $30 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees ...

5 days ago · In this innovative biography, Ruth Franklin explores the transformation of Anne Frank (1929–1945) from ordinary teenager to icon, shedding new light on the young woman whose diary of her years in hiding, now translated into more than seventy languages, is the most widely read work of literature to arise from the Holocaust.

Ruth Franklin, acclaimed biographer, is the author of The Many Lives of Anne Frank (Jan. 2025). The book explores the transformation of Anne Frank (1929-1945) from ordinary teenager to cultural icon, shedding new light on the young woman whose diary—translated into more than 70 languages— is the most widely read work of literature to arise ...

5 days ago · Ruth Franklin is the author of A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction, a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, and of Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. She lives in …

Her first book, A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction (Oxford University Press, 2011), was a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Anne’s transformation into an icon has had the effect of obscuring who she really was. She becomes whoever and whatever we need her to be. “This tour de force sets the standard for anyone thinking about Anne Frank for years to come.”—Dara Horn, author of People Love Dead Jews. “A moving, clear-eyed tribute.