Tom Franklin
Tom Franklin is an American crime writer and short story writer from Alabama whose debut novel Hell at the Breech drew comparisons to Cormac McCarthy for its portrayal of violence in the rural South. Crooked Letter Crooked Letter is a beautifully written crime novel about race and memory in Mississippi. He received the Edgar Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
Works
- Crooked Letter, Crooked LetterTwo boys' lives intersect years later when one is accused of the other's disappearance
- Hell at the BreechRural Mississippi community erupts in violence following Union reconstruction brutality
- PoachersCollection of interconnected stories of outlaws and survival in South
- SmonkDeranged outlaw woman terrorizes rural Deep South with violent unpredictability
- The Tilted WorldMississippi flood of 1927 backdrop for love story amid displacement and chaos
- Crooked Letter Crooked LetterTwo boys' lives intersect years later when one is accused of the other's disappearance