Mabel Dodge Luhan (1879–1962)

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.