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Ruth Franklin’s innovative new biography, “The Many Lives of Anne Frank”, explores the transformation of Anne Frank from ordinary teenager to icon, shedding new light on the young woman whose diary, translated into more than seventy languages, is the most widely read work of literature about the Holocaust. This virtual program is a co-presentation of MMT Library and The Jewish Center of Morristown. Please email refdesk@mmt.mainlib.org for the Zoom code.
Our speaker: Ruth Franklin is a book critic and former editor at The New Republic. Franklin’s work appears in 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, a Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library, a Leon Levy Fellowship in Biography, and the Roger Shattuck Prize for Criticism. Her book, “A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction”, was a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.