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Nancy Horan is the New York Times bestselling author of Loving Frank and Under the Wide and Starry Sky. Loving Frank remained on the NYT list for over a year, has been translated into sixteen languages and received the 2009 Prize for Historical Fiction. A native Midwesterner, Horan was a teacher and journalist before turning to fiction. She lived for 25 years in Oak Park, Illinois, where she raised her two sons, and she now lives with her husband on an island in Puget Sound.
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How did you become interested in Mamah Borthwick Cheney? Why
do you think that it has taken so long for her to begin to emerge from out of
the shadow of Frank Lloyd Wright and be seen as an interesting figure in her
own right?
Anyone who lives in Oak Park, Illinois, as I did for twenty-four
years, knows something about Frank Lloyd Wright. His home and studio complex
attracts busloads of visitors from around the world, and his prairie houses dot
the town.
One of those houses belonged to Mamah Borthwick Cheney, the client who became
his
lover. The house Wright built for her and her husband is on East Avenue, the
very street
I lived on. When I toured Wright's home and studio several times, I noticed the
guides
didn't say much about Mamah; understandably, their focus is on his work and
family life.
What little I learned about her piqued my interest, though. She was a highly
educated
woman, a wife and mother of young children at the time of her affair, a
feminist. Who
was she, and why did she risk so much? A couple of biographies about Wright
whetted
my appetite. The more I learned about her, the more I felt compelled to tell her
remarkable story.
Some scholars and Wright admirers have resisted ...
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Loving Frank
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Marie Benedict is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Queens of Crime, The Mitford Affair, Her Hidden Genius, The Mystery of Mrs. Christie, The Only Woman in the Room, Lady Clementine, Carnegie's Maid, ... (more)
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Under the Wide and Starry Sky
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The Mitford Affair
by Marie Benedict
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