Emily FranklinEmily Franklin is the bestselling author of more than twenty 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, and the Journal of the American Medica Association, 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 tenth printing. Love & Other Monsters, historical fiction told from the perspective of Claire Clairmont, Mary Shelley's forgotten stepsister who changed the course of literature forever, will be published in April 2026. Read More Read Less