Paulette Frankl | |
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Born | California, U.S. |
Nationality | United States |
Alma mater | Stanford University |
Occupation | Artist, author |
Paulette Frankl is an American courtroom artist and author.
Frankl was born in California, and attended Stanford University, where she majored in art and languages.
Frankl exhibited her first artwork in Los Angeles at age 7 in a joint show with her father, Paul T. Frankl, an Art Deco furniture designer and architect. She worked with author Christopher Long, sharing documents, photos and family background for a 2007 biography of her father.
Her courtroom sketches, drawings and paintings from both federal and superior cases have aired on CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox, WGN-TV and "Talk America" and have taken her to the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2008, Frankl was included in a feature story by photographer David Friedman about courtroom artists and their work outside of the courtroom.
Frankl has authored a biography titled Lust for Justice about J. Tony Serra, a radical civil rights, criminal defense attorney and tax resister, about whom the 1989 film True Believer starring James Woods and Robert Downey, Jr. was based. The book, which launched in San Francisco in November 2010, includes Frankl's original courtroom art done during Serra's trials. The San Francisco Chronicle called the book a reflection "on the work of a larger-than-life persona."