Baltimore-born author and literary critic Ruth Franklin will visit Bird in Hand Cafe & Bookstore, 11 East 33rd Street, to discuss her new book, “The Many Lives of Anne Frank” (Yale University Press). In this innovative biography, Franklin explores the transformation of Frank from ordinary teenager to icon, shedding new light on the young woman whose diary of her years in hiding, now translated into more than 70 languages, is the most widely read work of literature to arise from the Holocaust.

A Park School graduate, Franklin is a book critic and former editor at The New Republic who lives in Brooklyn, New York. Franklin’s work appears in many publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, 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.

Her first book, “A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction” (Oxford University Press, 2011), was a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.

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