My 5 Bookmark review of Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter. Interested in Tom Franklin’s books? Click here to read The Titled World (2013) – co-written with his wife, Beth Ann FennellyĬheck out these links for more information: If I try to write against the dark, it feels false.Īwards include the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Crime Writers’ Association Golden Dagger Award. I’m interested in the shadowy part of humans. I’m a very happy person and very lucky with my life, my wife and my children, but when I’m writing I find conflict interesting and it goes to dark places for me. When asked about his writing, Franklin responded, He also worked in a morgue, a job that was unpopular, but one he enjoyed because of the stories he heard. To pay for school, he worked in a wide range of places: in a warehouse, at a plant that made sandblasting grit and at a chemical plant where he cleaned up hazardous waste. They met at the University of Arkansas MFA program.įranklin put himself through college at University of South Alabama, after his father cut off his tuition because of bad grades. She also works at Ole Miss and is the Poet Laureate of Mississippi. Franklin’s wife, Beth Ann Fennelly, is an American poet and prose writer. He is considered a diverse Southern writer of several genres, including crime fiction, mystery and literary fiction. He is currently an associate professor in the MFA program at University of Mississippi. His lyric, deceptively simple prose conjures a world where the default setting is violence, a world of hunting and fishing, gambling and losing, drinking and poaching-a. Tom Franklin is a best-selling, award-winning American writer from Dickinson, Alabama. In ten stunning and bleak tales set in the woodlands, swamps and chemical plants along the Alabama River, Tom Franklin stakes his claim as a fresh, original Southern voice.
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