Nancy Horan | |
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Occupation | Author |
Nationality | American |
Genre | Historical fiction |
Notable awards | James Fenimore Cooper Prize (2009) |
Nancy Horan is an American author of historical fiction. Her works include Loving Frank , a novel about Mamah Borthwick and her relationship with American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, [1] and Under the Wide and Starry Sky, a novel about the relationship between Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife. [2] Horan was awarded the 2009 James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Best Historical Fiction by the Society of American Historians for Loving Frank. [3]
A former resident of Oak Park, Illinois, Horan was a middle school English teacher, a freelance journalist, and worked briefly in a public relations firm before moving to an island in Puget Sound, where she lives with her husband. [4] [5]