H Bruce Franklin Nathaniel Hawthorne Edgar Allan Poe

Howard Bruce Franklin (February 28, 1934 – May 19, 2024) was an American cultural historian and scholar. He received top awards for his lifetime scholarship in fields as diverse as American studies, science fiction, prison literature and marine ecology. He wrote or edited twenty books and three hundred professional articles and participated in making four films. His main areas of academic focus were science fiction, prison literature, environmentalism, the Vietnam War and its aftermath, and Amer…