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“Not here, not here the darkness / In this twittering world.” (Eliot) Author of SHIRLEY JACKSON: A RATHER HAUNTED LIFE. Working on Anne Frank bio. #caroin2023
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How Shirley Jackson Exposed the Darker, Uncanny Side of Everyday Life

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By Ruth Franklin
| Flipboard
1 hour ago When I was 16, I attended a writing workshop with a group of precocious young poets, where we all tried very hard to prove who among us was the most tortured upper-middle-class teenager. One boy refused to tell anyone where he was from, declaring, “I’m from everywhere and nowhere.” Two weeks later, …
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The singular tragedy of Anne Frank

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By Ruth Franklin
| The Salt Lake Tribune Verified
"Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes ... Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find their parents have disappeared." Written by Anne Frank about the persecution of Jews by Nazis in Amsterdam, these words went viral during the first Trump administration.
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THE MANY LIVES OF ANNE FRANK

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By Ruth Franklin, Stephanie Johnson, Brandon Stanton, Henry Sene Yee Verified
| Kirkus Reviews Verified
An intriguing effort that tries to do too much. The short life and long legacy of the world’s most famous Holocaust victim. Anne Frank got her first diary as a present for her 13th birthday, just weeks before her family went into hiding in 1942. By the time she died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, not yet 16, she had filled multiple notebooks and was revising them for postwar publication before her arrest.
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