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Emily Franklin

Biography

Emily Franklin

Emily Franklin is the bestselling author of more than 20 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.

Emily Franklin

Books by Emily Franklin

Love & Other Monsters
by Emily Franklin - Fiction, Historical Fiction

During the dangerous storms of The Year Without Summer, a group of famous young writers gathered at a mansion on the shores of Lake Geneva, Switzerland. Brilliant Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, her fiery fiancé Percy Shelley, the famously promiscuous Lord Byron, and John Polidori, his sexually tormented personal physician. At the group’s center was Claire Clairmont, Mary’s impressionable, clever and dangerously loyal stepsister. Those months of desire, betrayal and creative passion gave the world the works of Frankenstein, the modern vampire, and the mythic image of these Romantic literary giants. In this intense and propulsive story of love, lust, art and betrayal Claire tells her story, trying to solve the mystery of why she was all but erased from history.