Ruth Franklin is the author of the critically acclaimed biographies The Many Lives of Anne Frank, hailed as a “tour de force [that] sets the standard for anyone thinking about Anne Frank for years to come,” and Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. Her first book, A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction (2011), was a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Writing. Her writing appears in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, the New York Review of Books, Harper’s, and more. She lives in Brooklyn.
Ross Benjamin is a translator of German-language literature. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his translation of Franz Kafka’s Diaries, and he was awarded the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize for his rendering of Michael Maar’s Speak, Nabokov. His translation of Daniel Kehlmann’s Tyll was shortlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize. His other translations include Friedrich Hölderlin’s Hyperion, Joseph Roth’s Job, and Daniel Kehlmann’s You Should Have Left and The Director.
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