Ruth Franklin

"Sure God created man before woman. But then you always make a rough draft before the final masterpiece."
~Author Unknown

Ruth Franklin is a senior editor for The New Republic. She has been working for the magazine since 1999 and became a literary editor in 2001. Being a Boston native, Ruth's writing is loud and in your face. Franklin is all about girl power, and she makes it known in her articles. She also titles many of her writings beginning with "THE read". Most of these articles encourage the reader to explore a certain book so that they can form their own opnion or understand hers. Not only is she an editor, but she is also the author of Women and Chairs and A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction. Needless to say, her pen is the sword that will attempt to take down the sexist pigs of the world along with closedmindedness.

 

Ruth isn't just a stereotyped woman that just complains about how bad women have it because of a plethora of hormones and estrogen. Oh, no. She's legit. she earned a bachelor of arts in English from Columbia University in 1995 and a master of arts in comparative literature from Harvard University in 1998. She has also been featured in The New York Times Book Review, the New Yorker, Slate, The Washington Post Book World, The London Review of Books, and other publications.