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Ruth Franklin

Biography

Ruth Franklin

Ruth Franklin is a book critic and frequent contributor to The New Yorker, Harper’s and many other publications. A recipient of a New York Public Library Cullman Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship, she lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Ruth Franklin

Books by Ruth Franklin

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
by Ruth Franklin - Biography, Nonfiction

Still known to millions primarily as the author of “The Lottery,” Shirley Jackson (1916–1965) has been curiously absent from the mainstream American literary canon. A genius of literary suspense and psychological horror, Jackson plumbed the cultural anxiety of postwar America more deeply than anyone. Now, biographer Ruth Franklin reveals the tumultuous life and inner darkness of the author of such classics as THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE and WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE.