Tribune, Minneapolis Star Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, The Chicago.Winner of the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Best Historical Fiction National icon, and their timeless love story. Elegantly written and remarkably rich in detail, Loving Frank is a fitting tribute to a courageous woman, a
Love and responsibility, leading inexorably to this novel’s stunning conclusion. Mamah’s is an unforgettable journey marked by choices that reshape her notions of
The conflicts and struggles of a woman forced to choose between the roles of mother, wife, lover, and intellectual. Drawing on years of research, Horan weaves little-known facts into a compelling narrative, vividly portraying During the construction of the house, a powerful attraction developed between Mamah and Frank, and in time the lovers, each married with children, embarked onĪ course that would shock Chicago society and forever change their lives.
Four years earlier, in 1903, Mamah and her husband, Edwin, had commissioned the renownedĪrchitect to design a new home for them. I want to feel the current.” So writes Mamahīorthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright. “Masterful.”- People “A fascinating love story.”- San Francisco Chronicle “TrulyĪrtful fiction.”- The New York Times “I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. From the author of The House of Lincoln, an “enthralling” novel that brings “the buried truths of the ill-starred relationship of Mamah BorthwickĬheney and Frank Lloyd Wright to light” ( The New York Times Book Review).
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