BIOGRAPHY FELLOW 2014 – 2015

Ruth Franklin

For a biography of Shirley Jackson

Ruth Franklin is a book critic and contributing editor at The New Republic. She has written for many publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, Bookforum, Granta, and Salmagundi, to which she contributes a regular film column. Her first book, A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction, was a finalist for the 2012 Sami Rohr Prize in Jewish Literature. She has been a fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, and received a Guggenheim fellowship in biography. As a Leon Levy fellow, she worked on a biography of the American writer Shirley Jackson, Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, published in September 2016 by Liveright / W.W. Norton & Company.