Nancy Horan
Nancy Horan
Nancy Horan is an American author of historical fiction...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
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One of the great lessons I learned about historical fiction from writing 'Loving Frank' is that you don't try to disguise what people did; my approach was to try to understand the characters and why they did what they did.
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'Loving Frank' is about a forbidden love affair between two people who lived a hundred years ago - Frank Lloyd Wright and his married client, Mamah Borthwick Cheney. The affair set off a colossal newspaper scandal when the lovers ran off to Europe together.
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So this was the big secret historians keep to themselves: historical research is wildly seductive and fun. There's a thrill in the process of digging, then piecing together details like a puzzle.
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What did a person need to survive? Food. Water. Shelter. Warmth in cold weather. And something else... books.