Ruth Franklin

Ruth Franklin is a book critic and
former editor at The New Republic. She has written for many publications,
including The New Yorker, Harper’s, The New York Times Book Review, The New
York Review of Books, and Salmagundi, to which she contributes a regular film
column. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in biography, a Cullman
Fellowship at the New York Public Library, a Leon Levy Fellowship in biography,
and the Roger Shattuck Prize for Criticism. 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. Shirley
Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life (W.W.Norton) will be published this September.