
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (2010) Novel, HarperCollins Publishers, New York Times Bestseller, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction, RT Reviewers Choice Award for Best Contemporary Mystery, U.K.Smonk (2006) Novel, HarperCollins Publishers.Hell at the Breech (2003) Novel, HarperCollins Publishers.Poachers (1999) Short Stories, HarperCollins Publishers, Winner of The Edgar Award.Franklin co-wrote the novel The Tilted World (2013) with his wife Fennelly, about the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. His second novel, Smonk is about the trial of a rapist who terrorized a small town in Alabama." Franklin's most acclaimed novel, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (2010), which won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award, explores racial tensions and friendships. His first novel, Hell at the Breech (2003), is a fictionalized version of a violent feud in 1892 called the Mitcham War, that took place in Clarke County, Alabama. Writing career įranklin's first book is collection of ten short stories, Poachers (1999), the title story of which won the Edgar Award for Best Mystery Short Story. He is currently an associate professor at the University of Mississippi. What a great novel by a great novelist.',-Dennis Lehane ,A powerful and resonant novel from Tom Franklin-critically acclaimed author of Smonk and Hell at the Breech-Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter tells the riveting story of two boyhood friends, torn apart by circumstance, who are brought together again by a terrible crime in a small Mississippi. at the University of Arkansas, in 1998, where he met his wife, poet Beth Ann Fennelly. at the University of South Alabama, in Mobile, Alabama. Thomas Gerald Franklin (born July 7, 1963) is an American writer originally from Dickinson, Alabama, United States.
