If I try to write against the dark, it feels false.Īwards include the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Crime Writers’ Association Golden Dagger Award. I’m interested in the shadowy part of humans. I’m a very happy person and very lucky with my life, my wife and my children, but when I’m writing I find conflict interesting and it goes to dark places for me. When asked about his writing, Franklin responded, He also worked in a morgue, a job that was unpopular, but one he enjoyed because of the stories he heard. To pay for school, he worked in a wide range of places: in a warehouse, at a plant that made sandblasting grit and at a chemical plant where he cleaned up hazardous waste.
They met at the University of Arkansas MFA program.įranklin put himself through college at University of South Alabama, after his father cut off his tuition because of bad grades. She also works at Ole Miss and is the Poet Laureate of Mississippi. Franklin’s wife, Beth Ann Fennelly, is an American poet and prose writer. He is considered a diverse Southern writer of several genres, including crime fiction, mystery and literary fiction. He is currently an associate professor in the MFA program at University of Mississippi. 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 Beth Ann Fennelly, and their children.Tom Franklin is a best-selling, award-winning American writer from Dickinson, Alabama. Franklin has published two novels: Hell at the Breech, published in 2003 and Smonk published in 2006. 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.
In 1997 he received his MFA from the University of Arkansas. 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.
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 Tom Franklin was born and raised in Dickinson, Alabama. Tom Franklin was born and raised in Dickinson, Alabama.
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