Mabel Dodge Luhan was a larger-than-life woman who presided over artistic circles on several continents, four husbands, many lovers, and salons in Italy, New York, and New Mexico. Her four-volume autobiography, Intimate Memories (1933-1937), remains her major literary achievement. She left her mark in many areas of human endeavor: artistic, cultural, social, psychological, and ecological. She was a patron of artists; she established salons that provided a forum for many of the cultural, artistic, and political leaders of her day; she was active in leftist politics; she was an early participant in analysis, having been treated by A. A. Brill, founder of the New York Psychoanalytic Society; and her later life in New Mexico enabled her to work to save the land of the native peoples that she saw threatened. Noted for the illuminati with whom she was acquainted, she became famous herself. Her significance as a writer...