Lillian Faderman's "Naked In The Promised Land" on Valley Writers Read

KVPR | By Franz Weinschenk

Published April 2, 2014 at 7:11 PM PDT

On this week's Valley Writers Read, Lillian Faderman reads from her book “Naked In The Promised Land.” Originally her family came from Poland, but now, even though she still sees him, the mother's husband has left and denies being the baby's father. In the end, the mother, her baby, and the mother's sister decide to start life over again in California.

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Franz Weinschenk

Franz Weinschenk, his parents and his older brother Fritz were indeed lucky to get out of Germany just before World War II. For a while they lived in Brooklyn, N.Y., before moving to Madera, CA. He graduated from Madera High and Fresno State. From 1948 to 1952 he taught at Edison High School in Fresno after which he was drafted and served in the US Army for two years.

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