![]() ![]() ![]() This decision allowed Horan not only to explore the age-old ethical dilemmas of abandoning motherhood and a dull marriage for an "erotic and nourishing" relationship but also to examine turn-of-the-century morals, gender roles and women's rights. After two years, she began again, settling on Mamah (whose given name was Martha) as the main character. While Horan says she enjoyed researching the period from 1900 to 1914, she says her first draft of her first novel, "Loving Frank," proved too unfocused when told from several points of view. In fact, Horan had lived on the street where the home Wright designed for Mamah and Edwin Cheney was built. But about eight years ago, she took a class in fiction writing at the University of Chicago and, once the idea of tackling this highly censured early 20th century affair took hold, a historical novel seemed the perfectly obvious route. Horan's background had been in journalism. Although Nancy Horan lived in Oak Park, Ill., for 24 years, she only gradually found the inspiration to base a novel on its famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Mamah Borthwick Cheney, a client who became Wright's lover. ![]()
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