New book by Ruth Franklin explores how Anne Frank, the German Jewish teenager killed in the Holocaust, became a cultural icon ...

The title of Ruth Franklin’s The Many Lives of Anne Frank exudes a tragic and no doubt purposeful irony. A melding of biography, literary exegesis and cultural history, this volume in the Yale ...

Ruth Franklin's 'The Many Lives of Anne Frank' complements the diarist's story and refuses to police its interpretation by ...

A melding of biography, literary exegesis and cultural history, this volume in the Yale University Press’s excellent Jewish ...

Ruth Franklin is the author of A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction, a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, and of Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, ...

Ruth was a member of Marion First United Methodist Church where she served in many different volunteer capacities and sang in the church choir.

The more Anne Frank becomes a generic symbol of all historical tragedy, the less we remember who she was and what happened to ...