Though he would become world-famous as the author of adventure tales such as Treasure Island and the Gothic potboiler The Strange Case of Dr. In Under the Wide and Starry Sky, Horan is at it again, reimagining the real-life courtship and adventures of globe-trotting Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson and his indomitable American wife, Fanny Osbourne. With her best-selling 2007 novel Loving Frank - about architect Frank Lloyd Wright and his scandalous affair with Mamah Borthwick Cheney - Nancy Horan didn't invent the genre of the Woman Behind the Great Artist.īut she was a guiding light for what proved to be a fresh current in literary fiction. Under the Wide and Starry Sky by Nancy Horan Ballantine, 472 pp. What should you read this weekend? USA TODAY's picks for book lovers include the latest historical novel from Loving Frank author Nancy Horan, and a fresh look at the marriage of Pat and Richard Nixon.
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