With over 50 works on view in “Ruth Franklin: Old and New Dreams,” it’s natural that some of the artist’s portraits simply won’t hold their own.

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

On Thursday, Ruth Franklin took home the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. Franklin was honored for her biography of the writer Shirley Jackson “Shirley Jackson: A Rather ...

Author of famed memoir "Night," Elie Wiesel's has died. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to author and former editor of The New Republic, Ruth Franklin on the lasting legacy of his Holocaust remembrance.

To take on a subject that has been extensively written about requires a degree of both daring and ambition in an author. When I started to read The Many Lives of Anne Frank by Ruth Franklin, I ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Ruth Franklin is an Author with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2017 Public Affairs Event. Robert Weil, editor-in-chief and publishing ...