NANCY HORAN
Tuesday, April 22 at 7:30 p.m.

A writer who lives 'on an island' here in Washington, Nancy Horan garnered great attention, much praise, and a considerable readership for her debut novel, Loving Frank (new in paper, Ballantine), when it was first published a year ago. "Frank" was and is Frank Lloyd Wright; this novel tells of a complex, prolonged affair he and a married woman, Mamah Borthwick Cheney, conducted. "It takes great courage to write a novel about historical people, and in particular to give voice to someone as mythic as Frank Lloyd Wright. This beautifully written novel about Mamah Cheney and Frank Lloyd Wright's love affair is vivid and intelligent, unsentimental and compassionate." - Jane Hamilton. "Horan's nuanced evocation of these flawed human beings plays beautifully against the lurid facts of their situation. As in the best historical fiction, she finds both the truth and the heart of her story." - Los Angeles Times.

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