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 ...

Book cover design for “The Many Lives of Anne Frank” by Ruth Franklin The last known photograph of Anne taken in May 1942, two months before she and her family went into hiding. When she was a ...

Uh-oh. You might expect Ruth Franklin to take everyone associated with the film to task in her new book, “The Many Lives of Anne Frank”: The charge of careless cultural appropriation seems ...

Cornelia Ruth Bible Nelson, 86, of Franklin, W.Va., passed away Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, at Grant Memorial Hospital in Petersburg, W.Va. She was born Nov. 29, 1938, a daughter of the late George W. and ...

Eighty years after her final entry, the story of Frank’s diary is told in a new light by the author Ruth Franklin and by the Anne Frank House and Center for Jewish History’s “Anne Frank: The ...

Ruth Franklin is the author of the forthcoming “The Many Lives of Anne Frank.” Source photograph by Archivio GBB/CONTRASTO, via Redux.

In “The Many Lives of Anne Frank,” Ruth Franklin explores the idea that the posthumous fame attached to Anne Frank has all but eclipsed the fact of her reality. As Cynthia Ozick, Dara Horn and ...

Daniel Ruth [ Tampa Bay Times ] “You may have noticed, since the membership has grown just a tad after Jan. 20, we had to ...

Beverly Byron, a conservative Democrat who represented Western Maryland in the House of Representatives for 14 years, died of ...

which along with the amphetamines she used for weight loss, may also have combined in the heart condition that killed her, at 48. A 2016 biography, by Ruth Franklin, was entitled A Rather Haunted ...