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FRANK ZAJACZKOWSKI was born in Lincoln, England and emigrated to the United States as a child, the son of WWII refugees. He has an MA in English from UCLA where he was the Editor-in-Chief of its literary magazine, and then went on to teach English at local colleges for a number of years. He left the U.S. after his own children were grown to sail and experience life in the Caribbean.
His new novel, A Family Garden, attempts to answer a seminal question: Can love once forsaken ever be redeemed? The story revolves around an unlikely trio who are chased up California’s coast by drug dealers and fanatics to a drug rehab in Canada where an impending lover’s reunion will be their last chance to recover what they’ve lost and their first chance to find the new life they desperately seek. Mature lovers and young lovers. Promises and betrayals. A Family Garden transforms the journey North into a complex journey inward, where the trio must each find the strength to overcome their demons or lose forever the love they desperately need.
His first novel, High Pocket, which will soon be available on Amazon, is an action/adventure story about a modern-day gold miner named Jake, who falls in love with the daughter of a crippled miner who tells him the unbelievable story of a cavern of gold he found in the accident that nearly took his life. When the Jake’s own brother is killed in a brutal mining accident brought about by the greed of the mine’s management, Jake puts his own life on the line to descend two miles inside the mine to see if the cavern still exists and to retrieve the gold.
His memoir, Passage From England, details the emotional journey of his search for home, interweaving the adventures and tragedies of his immigrant childhood in America’s 50s and 60s with the unusual experiences of his early retirement in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Told from two points of view and spanning five decades, the multiple journeys of the child and the man enrich one another, providing an understanding of the demons that pursued him while uncovering the spirit of endurance that was fostered within.
He has also written a number of screenplays, as well as the libretto for classical opera, Ode To Phaedra, which was inducted into the Oxford University Archives of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama.
His website, My So-Called Paradise (www.mysocalledparadise.com), includes weekly posts of contemporary observations of urban living, short stories, poems, etc., as well as excerpts from his books.
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