![]() ![]() The book’s title is taken from Wright’s own words about Mamah (pronounced “MAY-muh,” a nickname for “Mary”) in an 1,100-word letter he wrote to the Spring Green community via a local newspaper after her death.ĭeeply researched, A Brave and Lovely Woman portrays her as confident, charismatic and intelligent. The result is A Brave and Lovely Woman: Mamah Borthwick and Frank Lloyd Wright, published by University of Wisconsin Press this month. After digging deeper, he deemed Mamah’s life - which ended in her 1914 murder at Wright’s famed Taliesin estate near Spring Green - worthy of its own story. Asia Pacific Council at the East-West Center. ![]() “I was just astonished she and I have a family connection that goes back to a common ancestor in New York in around 1770,” says Borthwick, 76, former director of the U.S. Instead, he read about Mamah in Many Masks: A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright, published in 1987 and written by Wright’s friend, the late longtime New Yorker scribe Brendan Gill. Mark Borthwick’s family members never mentioned their complicated genealogical connection to Mamah Borthwick - Mark’s second cousin thrice removed who also happened to be architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s lover. Author Mark Borthwick, left, and his book about cousin Mamah Borthwick, 'A Brave and Lovely Woman" ![]()
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