Feminist writer, Nancy Freedman, whose wide-ranging books include the bestselling "Mrs. Mike," co-written with her husband, has died at the age of 90, the New York Times reports.
She suffered temporal arteritis, an autoimmune inflammatory disease of the arterial vascular system, her husband Benedict Freedman said. She died on 10 August at her home in California.
In a literary career that began in the late 1940s and continued until her death, Freedman wrote or co-wrote 20 novels. These included Sappho: The Tenth Muse," a 1998 novel about the ancient Greek poet; and "Mary, Mary Quite Contrary," a 1968 novel about the origins of the modern feminist movement in Britain in the late 18th century.
When she married in 1941, she was suffering from a recurrence of rheumatic fever (which she'd had as a child) and was given three months to live. Just shows you - doctors don't always get it right
Thanks to Terry Reis Kennedy for this news.
