Ruth Franklin, acclaimed biographer, is the author of The Many Lives of Anne Frank (Jan. 2025). The book explores the transformation of Anne Frank (1929-1945) from ordinary teenager to cultural icon, shedding new light on the young woman whose diary—translated into more than 70 languages— is the most widely read work of literature to arise from the Holocaust.

Franklin received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life (2016), “a feminist reappraisal of a tortured genius of American gothic” (The Guardian).

Ruth Franklin
4:30 p.m. Tuesday, February 4
University at Albany
Multi-Purpose Room - Campus Center West
1400 Washington Avenue, Albany NY 12222
Free and open to the public
Books will be available for sale.
A signing will follow the conversation.

More information here.

Cosponsored by UAlbany’s Writing & Critical Inquiry Program (WCI) and the Jewish Federation of Northeastern New York.