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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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	Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter 3.83 avg rating — 46,426 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 by Tom Franklin (Goodreads Author), Beth Ann Fennelly 3.87 avg rating — 6,073 ratings — published 2013 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 4.06 avg rating — 2,803 ratings — published 2003	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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: Stories 3.98 avg rating — 2,243 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 3.65 avg rating — 1,465 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Mississippi Noir (Akashic Noir) by Tom Franklin (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ace Atkins (Goodreads Author), Michael Farris Smith (Goodreads Author) 3.66 avg rating — 377 ratings — published 2016 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 by Tom Franklin (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Barry R. Nowlin (Editor) 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1991	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Sun-Up to Sun-Down: The Lives of Golf Course Owners it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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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“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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“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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“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

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What shall we read in July, 2025? Books published after 1990.

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, by Tom Franklin

9 votes 25.0%

Mud Creek Medicine: The Life of Eula Hall and the Fight for Appalachia, by Kiran Bhatraju

8 votes 22.2%

Where the Line Bleeds, by Jesmyn Ward

7 votes 19.4%

Books, by Larry McMurtry

5 votes 13.9%

The Light Pirate, by Lily Brooks-Dalton

5 votes 13.9%

My Name Is Yip, by Paddy Crewe

2 votes 5.6%

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