Frané Lessac is a U.S.-born author, illustrator and painter who lives in Western Australia. She has published many children's books and won numerous awards for her illustrations.
Lessac moved to the Caribbean island of Montserrat in 1979,[1] where she began her career as a painter. Inspired by the beauty of the island, she concentrated on painting the old West Indies architecture and its people.[citation needed]
In 1983 Lessac left Montserrat[1] and moved to London, where she began to exhibit regularly and published her first book, My Little Island (1984), which was a compilation of her paintings of Montserrat[citation needed] and her "love letter" to the island.[1]
Career
After My Little Island, Lessac went on to publish a number of children's books, initially in the U.K, the U.S and later in the state of Western Australia, where she relocated with her husband, author and musician Mark Greenwood.[2]
In 1989 she created the illustration for the cover of the fund-raising album After The Hurricane – Songs For Montserrat.[1]
For her contribution to children's literature in Western Australia, Lessac was awarded the 2010 Muriel Barwell Award by the Children's Book Council of Australia WA Branch.[4]
Her first book, My Little Island, became a feature book on the popular U.S television program Reading Rainbow.
Lessac is married to Mark Greenwood, also an author of children's books, and they are parents to film producer Cody Greenwood.[1]
Cody's most recent film, Under the Volcano, a documentary about the AIR Montserrat recording studios, arose from memories of the family's frequent visits to Montserrat as she was growing up in the 1990s and 2000s. Lessac returned to Montserrat in August 2019, while Cody was filming, and again in 2024.[1]
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