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= Ruth Franklin = Ruth Franklin (born 1974 in Baltimore, Maryland) is a book critic, a former editor at The New Republic, and the author of two books, A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction and Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life.

Background and Education
Franklin received a B.A. in English from Columbia University and an M.A. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University.

Career
Franklin worked at The New Republic from 1999 until 2014.

Her first book, A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction was published by Oxford University Press in 2010. In The Washington Post, critic Susie Linfield called it "a beautiful book that addresses the ugliest of subjects." In The Atlantic, Menachem Kaiser wrote that it was "a towering work of criticism and insight." The book was a finalist for the 2012 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, a comprehensive biography of the author Shirley Jackson, was published by Liveright/W.W. Norton in 2016. It won the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, the Edgar Award in Biographical/Critical from the Mystery Writers of America, the Christian Gauss Award from Phi Beta Kappa, the Bram Stoker Award from the Horror Writers Association, and the Plutarch Award from Biographers International Organization. The book was a New York Times Notable Book of 2016, one of Time magazine's top ten nonfiction books of 2016, and an NPR "best book" of 2016. Neil Gaiman wrote that “Ruth Franklin is the biographer Jackson needed: she tells the story of the author in a way that made me want to reread every word Jackson ever wrote.”

Awards and Fellowships
2014 Fellowship at the Leon Levy Center for Biography

2012-13 Fellowship at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library

2012 Guggenheim Fellowship for Biography

2012 Roger Shattuck Prize for Criticism

Personal
Franklin lives in Brooklyn, New York.