A book critic and former editor of the New Republic, Ruth Franklin is also the author of the lauded books Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life and A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction. Her latest work is The Many Lives of Anne Frank, which the New Yorker calls “a vivid cultural history that advocates for a reevaluation of Frank, not as a symbol or a saint but as a human being and a literary artist.” Franklin discussed The Many Lives of Anne Frank with WYPL’s Stephen Usery in late May.

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