Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter came out last month and you will see our review tomorrow of Tom Franklin’s fourth novel. So here’s a primer of the author:
- Born and raised in rural Alabama
- Working his way through college at University of Southern Alabama, he did a stint cleaning hazardous materials
- Received his MFA and met his future wife at University of Arkansas
- After living in Pennsylvania and Illinois, Franklin and his family has settled in Oxford, Mississippi (the crooked letter state)
- Favorite TV show is The Wire
- Won 3rd prize in Playboy College Fiction Contest
- Has been compared to To Kill A Mockingbird’s author Harper Lee
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