Thomas Gerald Franklin (born July 7, 1963) is an American writer originally from Dickinson, Alabama, United States.
at the University of Arkansas, in 1998, where he met his wife, poet Beth Ann Fennelly.
He credits authors Rick Bass and Raymond Carver for his introduction to the realism writing style.
[5] 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.
Franklin co-wrote the novel The Tilted World (2013) with his wife Fennelly,[6] about the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927.