Mabel Dodge Luhan (1879–1962)
Author of Edge of Taos Desert: An Escape to Reality
About the Author
Image credit: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-106861 DLC
Works by Mabel Dodge Luhan
Associated Works
Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature (1991) — Contributor — 441 copies, 6 reviews
La puerta, Taos : the art of fetching sky : a biography of place : vol. 2 (2009) — Contributor — 3 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Luhan, Mabel Dodge
- Other names
- Luhan, Mabel Ganson Dodge Sterne
Ganson, Mabel (birth name) - Birthdate
- 1879-02-26
- Date of death
- 1962-08-13
- Gender
- female
- Occupations
- patron of the arts
writer - Relationships
- Reed, John (lover)
Lawrence, D. H. (friend and recipient of Mabel's largesse)
Stieglitz, Alfred (friend)
Stein, Gertrude (friend)
Steffens, Lincoln (friend)
O'Keeffe, George (friend and recipient of Mabel's largesse) (show all 9)
Hartley, Marsden (friend and recipient of Mabel's largesse)
Marin, John (friend and recipient of Mabel's largesse)
Dove, Arthur (friend and recipient of Mabel's largesse) - Short biography
- Mabel Dodge Luhan, née Ganson, was born in Buffalo, New York. She attended Saint Margaret’s Episcopal School for girls until age 16, then went to a school in New York City and a finishing school in Washington, D.C. In 1900, at age 21, she married Karl Evans, with whom she had one son before he died two years later in a hunting accident. She went to Paris, where she married Edwin Dodge, a wealthy Boston architect in 1904.
In 1912, the couple returned to the USA, settling in New York City, where Mabel separated from her husband. She married Maurice Sterne, a painter, as her third husband. In 1919, the couple moved to Taos, New Mexico and founded a literary colony there. She married her fourth and last husband, Antonio "Tony" Luhan, in 1923. - Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Buffalo, New York, USA
- Places of residence
- Florence, Tuscany, Italy
Arcetri, Italy
New York, New York, USA
Paris, France
Provincetown, Massachusetts, USA
Taos, New Mexico, USA - Place of death
- Taos, New Mexico, USA
- Burial location
- Kit Carson Cemetery, Taos, New Mexico, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- USA
Members
Reviews
This treasure was found in an antique book store In Albuquerque, New Mexico, as I was rummaging through a shelf of lovely dusty books. What a find. Mabel Dodge Luhan's tale of her journey from Santa Fe to Taos, and the life she builds in her new found love, is magnificent and enchanting. Her descriptions of the area she lives in and the Indians are raw and passionate. You can deeply feel her love for these quiet and soulful people. Her tale is brought to life through her delicious words, as show more well as an intimate, stirring feeling of a woman who has just stepped outside from a dark place to smell fragrant spring flowers of the land for the first time, or of one who has just awakened to a kiss from their true love. Her writing is genius. show less
I’ve long wondered about MDL and this a lovely way to learn something about her in her own words. I immediately knew I liked her when she wrote that NM immediately felt like home to her. She was a woman who wasn’t afraid to take risks and seek adventure.
This is one of my all time favorite books! It describes a time and place long-gone, rich in atmosphere, new, exciting, completely unique. I came across it in John Coles' Bookshop in La Jolla, California, in 1999. I didn't know anything about Mabel Dodge Luhan or the early Taos years at the time, but the book intrigued me and I gobbled it up, partially because it was so unfamiliar and new. That experience of discovery in a quirky, independent bookstore is exactly what book browsing should be show more -- serendipity and grace, discovery, excitement, thrill! show less
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Statistics
- Works
- 10
- Also by
- 2
- Members
- 319
- Popularity
- #74,134
- Rating
- 3.9
- Reviews
- 3
- ISBNs
- 22
- Languages
- 1