Ruth Franklin

Ruth Franklin is an American literary critic and biographer who began her career at The New Republic in 1999 and later became an adjunct professor at New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. She is best known for her award-winning biographies Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life (2016), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, and The Many Lives of Anne Frank (2025), along with her earlier work A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction (2010). Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, and other major publications, and she has received fellowships including Guggenheim and Cullman. RuthFranklin.net, Shipman Agency