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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 twenty-five books including The Lioness of Boston, based on the life of trailblazer Isabella Stewart Gardner, now in its eleventh printing and recently featured as a clue on Jeopardy! Her fiction, poetry, essays, and photos have been published in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Kenyon Review, and The Journal of the American Medical Association, among many other places, as well as featured and read aloud on National Public Radio, long-listed for the London Sunday Times Short Story Award and named notable by the Association of Jewish Libraries. She grew up half in the UK and half in Boston where she lives now with her spouse and four children. Her latest novel is Love & Other Monsters, the untold origin story of Frankenstein told from the perspective Claire Clairmont, Mary Shelley’s forgotten stepsister who changed the course of literature forever.

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