Jennie Franks

Jennie Franks is an English photographer, actress, and playwright. She may be best known as Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson's first wife, from 1970 to 1974. She is a credited lyricist (as Jennie Anderson) on the Jethro Tull song Aqualung. According to Anderson, "in total probably about half of the lyrics were words or word associations that she had come up with," based on pictures of homeless persons Jennie took as a photography student. [ [http://remus.rutgers.edu/JethroTull/FAQ.html#Q7 Jethro Tull FAQ] Retrieved on March 7, 2008]

Franks later moved to Los Angeles and married screenwriter Jeffrey Price. They relocated to Telluride, Colorado in 1993. [Denver Rocky Mountain News. Denver, Colo.: Nov 8, 1999. pg. 7.A]

In 1999, Franks made a 28-minute video about AIDS in western Colorado titled "Soft Smoke, AIDS in the Rural West". [Denver Rocky Mountain News. Denver, Colo.: Nov 8, 1999. pg. 7.A]

Franks wrote and acts in the play "Stuck!", about "one woman's courageous struggle to get out of a locked basement bathroom at a coffee house and reclaim control of her stalled life," which debuted in New York City in 2008. [ [http://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=24828 Broadway World] Retrieved on March 7, 2008]

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