Leah's Dream

About the Book

Florence Joseph Paul is a native New Yorker who has lived in Orange County, California for over thirty-nine years.  She wrote about whatever interested her, for her own enjoyment for many years. In 1975 she showed an article on China(she and her husband with two others were practically the first visitors after President Nixon opened the doors  to tourism in the Peoples Republic of China) to an editor, who published it in three parts for three days, in the newspaper.  It was the first for her, and it gave her the confidence to continue to try to have material published.  She became very successful, and has been published internationally in fifty-five magazines, plus many newspapers. To her credit she has also had two books published---He Never Pulled The Trigger, a bio on her late husband, as well as an Autobiography.

Florence is a proud mother,  grand-mother, and great grand-mother, award winner from the California Press Women, public speaker, free-lance writer, interviewer, and community activist.  She is also the proud recipient of a bronze plaque in her name which stands in a linear park.

Florence and Les, her late husband, have done a great deal of traveling, the entire world available to them. She has written a book I See The World which she has not as yet had published. She now travels by herself, to cover the areas she did not go to with Les.

In a New York school, there is a large kitchen for the children to have their lunch, which everyone called Mrs. Pauls Kitchen, for the amount of effort it took on her part to have it made. When asked by the Board of Estimate representative why she wanted an enclosed kitchen built in such an old school, she replied,

Sir, the school may be old, but our children are very young. She got the

kitchen.

All the articles Florence has written are nonfiction, but her new books are both fiction, one a sequel to the other.   Leahs Dream is about the daughter of the woman  Peg in  Peg--- A Dream Betrayed.   On the walls of her office, hang, along with awards, etc. permanized copies of letters from Queen Margarete of Denmark, and one from the King of Spain.  Les had surprised her with the permanized framing.

She has a wonderful family, not only her immediate, but also her extended family of friends and relatives. She is grateful to the public for her success.

Florence J. Paul has been repeatedly told she is eternally youthful.

About the Author

Florence Joseph Paul, a native New Yorker, has llived in Orange County, California for thirty nine years. She has had her nonfiction articles published internationally in 60 magazines, plus newspapers. A frequent public speaker, writer, and community activist, she still manages to find time for her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchild. She has also had four books published, both fiction and nonfiction. Leah’s Dream is the second fiction book published.