Tom Franklin

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Thomas Gerald Franklin (born July 7, 1963 ) is an American writer .

Life

Franklin is from Dickinson, Alabama , a small town near Monroeville , the city where the novel Who Disrupts the Nightingale takes place. Franklin describes himself as the average student. After high school, he studied at the University of South Alabama at Mobile and graduated with a bachelor's degree . In 1998 he received a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Arkansas. There he also met his wife, the writer Beth Ann Fennelly. You are the parents of three children.

Franklin currently works as an Associate Professor at the University of Mississippi .

Work and action

His writing style is often compared to Cormac McCarthy or Flannery O'Connor . His first publication was a collection of short stories that appeared in 1999 under the title Poachers . The main story won the Edgar Award. He published his first novel, The Feared , in 2003. In this he refers to a true incident that happened in 1899 near his hometown. In 2006, the novel Smonk: The City of Widows was published, which is also based in Alabama. Franklin's most famous novel, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter published in 2010, is also award-winning. From 2019, the novel will be the focus of the English Abitur in the state of Baden-Württemberg . Together with his wife, Franklin published the novel The Tilted World in 2013 . Like all of his other works, this novel is set in the American South. Thematically, the Mississippi flood of 1927 is taken up.

Works

  • Poachers . Short stories. Harper Collins, 1999
  • Hell at the Breech . Novel. Harper Collins, 2003
    • The feared . Translation Wolfgang Müller. Munich: Heyne, 2005
  • Smonk . Novel. Harper Collins, 2006
    • Smonk . Translation of Nikolaus Stingl. Pulp Master, 2017
  • Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter . Novel. Harper Collins, 2010
    • Crooked type, crooked type. Translation of Nikolaus Stingl. Pulp Master, 2018
  • with Beth Ann Fennelly : The Tilted World . Novel. Harper Collins, 2013

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ James Ellroy, Otto Penzler: The Best American Noir of the Century .
  2. ↑ http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=STND&u=cher61434&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CA255754971&inPS=true&linkSource=interlink&sid=STND
  3. ↑ http://www.mswritersandmusicians.com/mississippi-writers/tom-franklin
  4. ↑ http://www.harpercollinsspeakersbureau.com/speaker/tom-franklin/
  5. ^ Faculty . University of Mississippi Department of English. Retrieved June 7, 2015.
  6. ↑ Tom Franklin . University of Mississippi. Archived from the original on January 25, 2017. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 7, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mfaenglish.olemiss.edu
  7. ↑ http://www.harpercollinsspeakersbureau.com/speaker/tom-franklin/
  8. ↑ http://www.mswritersandmusicians.com/mississippi-writers/tom-franklin
personal data
SURNAME Franklin, Tom
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Franklin, Thomas Gerald (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1963