New book by Ruth Franklin explores how Anne Frank, the German Jewish teenager killed in the Holocaust, became a cultural icon ...

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 ...

A melding of biography, literary exegesis and cultural history, this volume in the Yale University Press’s excellent Jewish ...

Ruth Franklin's 'The Many Lives of Anne Frank' complements the diarist's story and refuses to police its interpretation by ...

Ruth Franklin is the author of A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction, a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, and of Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, ...

Ruth was a member of Marion First United Methodist Church where she served in many different volunteer capacities and sang in the church choir.

The more Anne Frank becomes a generic symbol of all historical tragedy, the less we remember who she was and what happened to ...

Regular readers of this Notebook know that I am enamored of the outdated conceptual duo of nature and culture, which are not quite the opposite terms that the originators of that binary once thought.

Josephine was born May 7, 1939 in Silver Spring Township, Cumberland County to the late William and Mary (Roth) McNair. The Franklin County Free Press is your local news website. We provide you with ...