Tom Franklin (author)

Thomas Gerald Franklin (Dickinson, Alabama, 1962) is an American crime fiction writer.[1] He is author of the novels Hell at the Breech' (2003)', Smonk (2006) and Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (2010) which won the CWA Gold Dagger Award. In addition, Franklin's first book is collection of short stories, Poaches (1999). He is the husband of poet Beth Ann Fennelly and his next published novel is co-written with her, entitled The Tilted World (2013).

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  1. ↑ James Ellroy, Otto Penzler The Best American Noir of the Century -2011 p445 "Tom (Thomas Gerald) Franklin (1962–) was born and raised in the tiny town of Dickinson, Alabama, before his ...... He received his MFA from the University of Arkansas, where he met his future wife, the poet Beth Ann Fennelly... His first novel, Hell at the Breech (2003), is a fictionalized version of a violent episode near the author's home in ...