The Adored One

Listed in the Theater category on Art In Fiction, The Adored One (2023) by Susanne Dunlap is a novel of Florenz Ziegfeld and Lillian Lorraine. Lillian Lorraine was a naïve 15-year-old chorine on Broadway when she attracted the notice of the notorious 41-year-old Florenz Ziegfeld. Accustomed to getting what he wanted, Ziegfeld took Lillian under his wing and into his arms, giving her coveted numbers in the Ziegfeld Follies and taking control of her career. But Lillian's rebellious spirit chafed against him, refusing to play according to his rules, and nearly destroying her own career in the process. "Talented, beautiful, fiercely independent, flighty... there aren't enough adjectives to describe the intensely sympathetic and heartbreakingly reckless Lillian Lorraine... Buckle up; it's a wild ride." - Mitchell James Kaplan, author of Rhapsody Susanne Dunlap is the author of historical fiction for adults and teens, as well as an Author Accelerator Certified Book Coach. Her love of historical fiction arose partly from her studies in music history at Yale University, partly from her lifelong interest in women in the arts as a pianist and non-profit performing arts executive. Her novel The Paris Affai r won first place in its category in the CIBA Dante Rossetti awards for Young Adult Fiction. The Musician’s Daughter  was a Junior Library Guild Selection and a Bank Street Children’s Book of the Year and was nominated for the Utah Book Award and the Missouri Gateway Reader’s Prize. In the Shadow of the Lamp was an Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award nominee. Susanne earned her BA and an MA (musicology) from Smith College, and lives in Biddeford, ME, with her little dog Betty.   Buy Now from Amazon Buy Now from Bookshop Find other novels by Susanne Dunlap on Art In Fiction.