Frederick Franck (born April 12, 1909 in Maastricht, The Netherlands – June 5, 2006 in Warwick, New York, U.S.) a painter, sculptor, and author of 30 books on Buddhism and other subjects who was known for his interest in human spirituality. He was a native of The Netherlands and became a US citizen in 1945. He was a dental surgeon by trade, and worked with Dr. Albert Schweitzer [1]. His sculptures are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Fogg Art Museum, the Tokyo National Museum, and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, as well as at Pacem in Terris, a small sculpture garden and park adjacent to his home in Warwick, NY.
Messenger of the Heart: The Book of Angelus Silesius, with observations by the ancient Zen masters, (World Wisdom, 2005) ISBN 978-0941532709
The Buddha Eye: An Anthology of the Kyoto School and it's Contemporaries, (World Wisdom, 2004) ISBN 978-0941532594
What Matters: Spiritual Nourishment for Head and Heart, (Skylight Paths Publishing, 2004) ISBN 978-1594730139
Ode to the Human Face: Seeing/Molding the Human Face As Meditation, (Codhill Press, 2004) ISBN 978-1930337121
A Passion for Seeing: On Being an Image Maker, (Codhill Press, 2003) ISBN 978-1930337060
A Zen Book of Hours, (Codhill Press, 2003) ISBN 978-1930337138
Seeing Venice: An Eye in Love : An Inner Travelogue With 94 Drawings, (Codhill Press, 2002) ISBN 978-1930337046
What Does It Mean to Be Human?, (St. Martin's Griffin, 2001) ISBN 978-0312271015
Pacem in Terris: A Love Story, (Codhill Press, 2000) ISBN 978-1930337022
Fingers Pointing Toward the Sacred: A Twentieth Century Pilgrimage on the Eastern and Western Way, (Beacon Point Press, 1994) ISBN 978-1569070062
Zen Seeing, Zen Drawing: Meditation in Action, (Bantam Books, 1993) ISBN 978-0553371468
A Little Compendium on That Which Matters, (St Martins Press, 1993) ISBN 978-0312093273
To Be Human Against All Odds: On the Reptile Still Active in Our Brain (Nanzan Studies in Religion and Culture), (Asian Humanities Pr, 1991) ISBN 978-0895819451
Life Drawing Life: On Seeing/Drawing the Human, (Great River Books, 1989) ISBN 978-0915556199
Echoes from the Bottomless Well, (Vintage, 1985) ISBN 978-0394729954
Art As a Way: A Return to the Spiritual Roots, (Crossroad Publishing Company, 1981) ISBN 978-0824500764
The Awakened Eye, (Vintage, 1979) ISBN 978-0394740218
An encounter with Oomoto "The great origin": A faith rooted in the ancient mysticism and the traditional arts of Japan, (Cross Currents, 1975)
Christ Equals Buddha, (Wildwood Ho, 1974) ISBN 978-0704501300
Zen of Seeing: Seeing/Drawing as Meditation, (Vintage, 1973) ISBN 978-0394719689
Simenon's Paris, (Dial Press, 1970)
Exploding church;: From Catholicism to Catholicism, (Delacorte Press, 1968)
My Eye is in Love: Revelations on the Act of Seeing by Drawing, (Macmillan, 1963)