Loving Frank

by Nancy Horan

NANCY HORAN, a former journalist and longtime resident of Oak Park, Illinois, now lives and writes on an island in Puget Sound. This is her first novel. Visit her website at www.lovingfrank.com.

  Loving Frank is a work of historical fiction. Apart from the well-known actual people, events, and locales that figure in the narrative, all names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to current events or locales, or to living persons, is entirely coincidental.

  Copyright © 2007 by Nancy Drew Horan

  All rights reserved.

  Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

  BALLANTINE and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

  Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published materials:

  Holy Cow! Press: “Farewell” by Else-Lasker Schüler, translated by Janine Canan from Star on My Forehead, translation copyright © 2000 by Janine Canan. Reprinted with permission of Holy Cow! Press, Duluth, MN.

  Sony BMG Music Entertainment: excerpt from Mefistofele translated into English by Barrymore Laurence Scherer, copyright © 1990 by Barrymore Laurence Scherer & Sony BMG Music Entertainment. Reprinted from the Sony Classical compact disc Boito: Mefistofele (S2K 44983), courtesy of Barrymore Laurence Scherer & Sony BMG Music Entertainment.

  The 1914 letter from Frank Lloyd Wright to the Weekly Home News and the lecture entitled “The Ethics of Ornament” delivered by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1909 are reprinted courtesy of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Taliesin West, Scottsdale, AZ.

  LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

  Horan, Nancy.

  Loving Frank / by Nancy Horan.

  p. cm.

  1. Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867–1959—Fiction. 2. Cheney, Martha Borthwick,

  1869–1914—Fiction. 3. Architects—Fiction. I. Title.

  PS3608.O725L68 2007

  813'.6—dc22 2007014810

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  eISBN: 978-0-345-50225-4

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