Tom Franklin
Tom Franklin is an American author of Southern literature and crime fiction novels. Tom was born and raised in Alabama. He earned his B.A. from the University of South Alabama and M.F.A. from the University of Arkansas. While being a struggling writer, he worked as a heavy-equipment operator in a grit factory, a construction inspector in a chemical plant and a clerk in a hospital morgue. Tom lives in Oxford, Mississippi with his wife, poet Beth Ann Fennelly, and their children.
