Nicole Franklin & Irene Franklin
Mother/daughter authors Irene and Nicole Franklin are members of a family of artists who cover music, dance, film, writing and photography. Both Irene and her journalist husband, Donald E. Franklin, also had careers as educators. Irene Franklin is a retired public school music teacher and spent has many decades teaching private piano while working as a choir director for the Archdiocese of St. Louis, MO. Nicole Franklin is an award-winning filmmaker also from St. Louis. Her work includes The Double Dutch Divas!, Journeys in Black: The Jamie Foxx Biography, Gershwin & Bess: A Dialogue with Anne Brown, the film series Little Brother, the feature film TITLE VII and the podcast series Before You Go featuring 100-year-old guests. Nicole is a university communications director and spent her career between Los Angeles and New York working as a news video editor on national network broadcasts for NBC, ABC and CBS television.
About the book: Six-year-old Ella is this Sunday’s soloist at her Church. During the short trip from her Grandmother’s lap to her choir director’s piano, she realizes that she has to figure out a secret code in order to hit all of the right notes.
Ella’s Sunday Song is a children’s picture book introducing the Spiritual, a musical art form that emerged from centuries of enslavement in the United States.
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From veteran filmmaker and writer Nicole Franklin, 100 Years Three Gunshots and Five Husbands is a writing prompt of 107 open-ended questions for those preparing to conduct the interview of a lifetime. And for those who wish to leave a legacy and write their own story, consider these 107 open-ended questions the perfect way to jumpstart your storytelling adventure.
