A "Time"ly Follow-up.

This book review for "Anne Frank - the Book, the Life, the Afterlife," by Francine Prose was just in last Sunday's Times book review... Just thought it a timely follow-up to my visit to the Anne Frank House.

The book contends that Anne Frank's diary was not discovered, but rather, always intended for wide-spread breadth.

Prose rebuts the charge that Frank’s diary was a “found object” — the inconsequential scribblings of an adolescent whose death elevated it far beyond its value as a work of literature. In fact, Frank intended her writings to reach as wide an audience as possible, inspired by a radio address given by a Dutch minister of education in exile who was determined, once the war was over, to establish an archive of accounts of life under the Nazis.

Read the full article here.