Explore the transformation of Anne Frank from ordinary teenager to icon. The Many Lives of Anne Frank sheds new light on the young woman whose diary of her years in hiding, now translated into more than 70 languages, is the most widely read work of literature to arise from the Holocaust. In this biography, Franklin reveals how Anne has been understood and misunderstood, as a person and as an idea, and opens up new avenues for interpreting her life and writing in today’s hyperpolarized world.