Thu, Nov 12
|Meet the Author Series
Join us to “meet the author” Roslyn Franken
Roslyn Franken is an internationally acclaimed author and inspirational speaker. She is best known for her book entitled, MEANT TO BE: A TRUE STORY OF MIGHT, MIRACLES AND TRIUMPH OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT, about how her parents, as two young Jewish teenagers, survived captivity...

Time & Location
Nov 12, 2020, 1:30 PM
Meet the Author Series
About the Event
Join us to “meet the author” Roslyn Franken: Roslyn Franken is an internationally acclaimed author and inspirational speaker. She is best known for her book entitled, MEANT TO BE: A TRUE STORY OF MIGHT, MIRACLES AND TRIUMPH OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT, about how her parents, as two young Jewish teenagers, survived captivity continents apart during World War II and met to find everlasting love, against all odds. Her mother survived the horrors of Auschwitz and other concentration camps throughout Nazi Europe while her father survived the Nagasaki atomic bomb as a prisoner of war in Japan.
Her parents’ story was the subject of a Gemini award-nominated CBC television documentary in Canada and a feature film adaptation of her book, MEANT TO BE, is currently in development for production through an American film production company.
To pre-read her book, it is available at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Meant-Be-Miracles-Triumph-Spirit/dp/0978427416/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1593810256&sr=8-1
BIO: Roslyn Franken
Her earlier books include THE A LIST: 9 GUIDING PRINCIPLES FOR HEALTHY EATING AND POSITIVE LIVING and one she co-authored entitled DEATH CAN WAIT: STORIES FROM CANCER SURVIVORS. Roslyn has also recently launched her Author Coaching program to help aspiring authors get their stories out of their heads, onto the page and out to the world.
Roslyn Franken has had many media appearances. In Florida, she has appeared on NBC Daytime, ABC Action News and Spectrum Bay News 9 Television and in newspapers including The Jewish Press of Tampa, The Jewish Press of Pinellas, Tampa Bay Times and more. In Canada, Roslyn has been featured in the Canadian Jewish News, Ottawa Jewish Bulletin, Ottawa Citizen, Montreal Gazette and on CTV and CBC news and more.