Ruth Franklin Books in Order
Explore Ruth Franklin’s books and series in order, with short summaries and reading lists to help you find your next book and decide where to begin reading.
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Ruth Franklin books in publication order
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A Thousand Darknesses
by Ruth Franklin
2010
Ruth Franklin examines how novels and memoirs represent the Holocaust, questioning the boundary between historical truth and literary invention. Reading writers including Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, and W. G. Sebald, she argues for imagination's role in understanding atrocity.
Shirley Jackson
by Ruth Franklin
2016
Ruth Franklin traces Shirley Jackson’s life alongside the fiction that made her a major American writer. The biography considers the relationship between her work, personal struggles, and the expectations placed on women in mid-twentieth-century America.
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