[1] During her senior year of high school, Franklin interned at a newspaper where she experienced sexual harassment from older reporters.
[2] After graduating, Franklin enrolled in Columbia University for her Bachelor of Arts degree in English Language and Literature.
[3] While working as a senior critic, she published her first book titled A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction in 2010.
In Franklin's book A Thousand Darknesses, she critiqued the assumption that Holocaust survivor testimonies were completely factual and should be taken as such.
"Her study questions the privileging of autobiography over fiction and endorses imagination as a form of truth-telling," wrote Heidi E.