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Emily Franklin

bestselling author and poet

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About Emily Franklin

Emily Franklin is a bestselling author of historical fiction about Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Lord Byron, Oscar Wilde, Isabella Stewart Gardner and other famous artists perfect for book clubsEmily Franklin is the bestselling author of more than twenty books including a poetry collection, Tell Me How You Got Here. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Kenyon Review, Guernica, and The Journal of the American Medical Association, among many other places, as well as featured and read aloud on National Public Radio, named notable by the Association of Jewish Libraries, and longlisted for the London Sunday Times Short Story Award. Her novel The Lioness of Boston, based on the life of trailblazer Isabella Stewart Gardner, is in its ninth printing and was recently featured as a clue on Jeopardy!. She grew up half in Boston and half in the UK. Her next novel Love & Other Monsters will be published in April 2026.

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