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Tom Franklin was born and raised in Dickinson, Alabama. He held various jobs as a struggling writer living in South Alabama, including working as a heavy-equipment operator in a grit factory, a construction inspector in a chemical plant and a clerk in a hospital morgue. In 1997 he received his MFA from the University of Arkansas. His first book, Poachers was named as a Best First Book of Fiction by Esquire and Franklin received a 1999 Edgar Award for the title story. Franklin has published two novels: Hell at the Breech, published in 2003 and Smonk published in 2006. The recipient of the 2001 Guggenheim Fellowship, Franklin now teaches in the University of Mississippi's MFA program and lives in Oxford, Mississippi with his wife, the poet Be...more

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Average rating: 3.81 · 17,477 ratings · 3,087 reviews · 15 distinct works · Similar authors

	Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter 3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 15,307 ratings — published 2010 — 17 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hell at the Breech 4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 742 ratings — published 2003 — 13 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poachers 4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 550 ratings — published 1999 — 9 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Smonk 3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 437 ratings — published 2006 — 12 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Alumni Grill II: Anthology of Southern Writers 3.38 of 5 stars 3.38 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tilted World: A Novel by Tom Franklin (Goodreads Author), Beth Ann Fennelly 4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — expected publication 2013 — 5 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mobile Bay Tales 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1991	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cleft Stick: The Ethiopian Famine 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1990	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The New Granta Book of the American Short Story by Richard Ford (Editor), Eudora Welty (Contributor), Andre Dubus (Contributor) 3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 196 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century by Tony Hillerman (Editor), Otto Penzler (Goodreads Author) (Series Editor), Robert L. Fish (Contributor) 3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Tom Franklin made a comment in the group A Discussion With Bestselling Author Tom Franklin — Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter -- The Title topic "Thanks, Lee and Luke. My pal Ace Atkins just got nominated for an Edgar for his new novel. And Luke, I'm glad you like Smonk. It's my favorite of my bo...more "
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Tom Franklin made a comment in the group A Discussion With Bestselling Author Tom Franklin — Welcome! topic "Thanks for the comments. I look forward to talking with yall. I'd love to talk about any subject yall like. I do hope that those of you who say you'll...more "
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Tom Franklin made a comment in the group A Discussion With Bestselling Author Tom Franklin — Rural police work topic "Thank yall for the comments. I got to ride around with a great guy, the chief investigator of an Alabama county's sheriff's department, and he told me...more "
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Tom Franklin made a comment in the group A Discussion With Bestselling Author Tom Franklin — SMONK topic "Dear R. John: Thank you. I'm so happy when people like Smonk. Here's how that book happened to happen: my 3 yr old daughter smelled a dead skunk and a...more "
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Tom Franklin made a comment in the group A Discussion With Bestselling Author Tom Franklin — Raising More Hell topic "Hi, Lee. I don't know about Waite. Did you ever see the story "Christians," that appeared in the H@Breech paperback? It features Waite. But I can't qu...more "
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“Maybe Larry was wrong about the word friend, maybe he'd been shoved away from everybody for so long all he was was a sponge for the wrongs other people did.”
― Tom Franklin, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter

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“Was that what childhood was? Things rushing by out a window, the trees connected by motion, going too fast for him to notice the consequences?”
― Tom Franklin, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter

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“The seat belt irked his father more than Uncle Colin's not eating meat, because, though his father never said it, Larry knew he considered seat belts cowardly.”
― Tom Franklin, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter

tags: passenger-safety

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APRIL 2011 BITCHES' CHOICE READ

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by Julie Orringer
A World War II saga, unfolding from a little-explored area of the Holocaust.

7 votes 53.8%

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The riveting story of two boyhood friends, torn apart by circumstance, who are brought together again by a terrible crime in a small Mississippi town.

6 votes 46.2%

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