The Many Lives of Anne Frank

In this month's People, Politics, and Prose, Ronald J. Granieri will be joined by Ruth Franklin to discuss her new book, The Many Lives of Anne Frank.  In this innovative biography, Ruth Franklin explores the transformation of Anne Frank (1929–1945) from ordinary teenager to icon, shedding new light on the young woman whose diary of her years in hiding, now translated into more than seventy languages, is the most widely read work of literature to arise from the Holocaust. Franklin’s book opens a window onto how individual stories relate to major world events, and to the complex relationship between memory and history.

Speakers

Ruth Franklin - Ruth Franklin is a book critic and former editor at The New Republic.

Ronald J. Granieri - Dr. Ronald J. Granieri is a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI). He also hosts People, Politics, and Prose, a monthly event series at FPRI.