Rose Dorothy Lewin Franken (1895–1988), author and playwright, was born on December 28, 1895, in Gainesville, Texas, the youngest child of Michael and Hannah (Younker) Lewin. In 1914 she married Sigmund W.A. Franken, an oral surgeon who died in 1932. They had three children, including physicist Peter Franken. In 1937 she married writer William Brown Meloney (1905–1971). She died in Tucson, Arizona, on June 22, 1988.