Mabel : A Biography of Mabel Dodge Luhan (1977)

An acutely detailed portrait of a dominant figure in our most turbulent cultural decades,from the first vogue of psychoanalysis to the cult of D.H. Lawrence and the colonization of Taos and Santa fe by witers,artists and other sensitive migrants. 'Everybody' of the period is in the book because its heroine summoned 'everybody' into her orbit. Mrs. Luhan was always searching,not always finding. She had her own kind of courage,though its exercise was not always benign-and yet her relentless will did not entirely foreclose acts of kindness on her part. There was pathos in her life,along with a daring command of outrage against convention. --back of book jacket.