Loving Frank: a novel by Nancy Horan 377 pp.
This is the historical fiction version of the scandalous and ultimately tragic love affair that took place between Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Borthwick Cheney. Mamah met Frank Wright in 1904 when she and her then husband Edwin Cheney, president of Wagner Electric, commissioned a house. What began as a mutual admiration of each other's intellects evolved into a love affair that by 1909 had each of them requesting divorces from their spouses. After a year long stay in Europe, Wright returned and built the famed Taliesin for Mamah. Even though they tried to escape to the small Wisconsin town, the press still hounded them as did Wright's creditors. The relationship meets a tragic end when a servant at Taliesin murders Mamah, her children, and some of Wright's staff and sets Taliesin on fire.
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