Writing and Thinking about the Critical Essay: Ruth FranklinJanuary 27, 2021 - Webinar Recording
Ruth Franklin is a book critic and former editor at The New Republic. Her book
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life (2016) won numerous awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, and was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2016, a Time magazine top nonfiction book of 2016, and a “best book of 2016” by The Boston Globe, the San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, and others. She is also the author of
A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction (2011), which was a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Writing. Her criticism and essays appear in many publications, including the
New Yorker,
New York Times Magazine, the
New York Review of Books, and
Harper’s. 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.
Moderated by Honor Moore, Faculty, Creative Writing Program.
Hosted by the
Creative Writing Program at The New School.