Lois Palken Rudnick

About The Author

Lois Palken Rudnick (1944-2021) was a community activist, teacher, and expert on Mabel Dodge Luhan. Her numerous publications included Mabel Dodge Luhan: New Woman, New Worlds (UNM Press), Eva Mirabal: Three Generations of Tradition and Modernity at Taos Pueblo, and Cady Wells and Southwestern Modernism. She was a professor emerita of American studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and lived for many years in Santa Fe, New Mexico. 

Books by Lois Palken Rudnick

The Suppressed Memoirs of Mabel Dodge Luhan

Sex, Syphilis, and Psychoanalysis in the Making of Modern American Culture

Internationally known as a writer, hostess, and patron of the arts of the twentieth century, Mabel Dodge Luhan (1879–1962) is not known for her experiences with venereal disease, unmentioned in her four-volume published memoir. Making the suppressed portions of Luhan’s memoirs available for the f...
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