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Tom Franklin

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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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The Tilted World

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Hell at the Breech

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Poachers: Stories

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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

“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

“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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APRIL 2011 BITCHES' CHOICE READ

Please vote on the poll below to select your choice for April's Bitches' Choice Read. Poll ends Friday.

The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
by Julie Orringer
A World War II saga, unfolding from a little-explored area of the Holocaust.
 
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Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
by Tom Franklin
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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