Nancy Mars Freedman (July 4, 1920, in Evanston, Illinois – August 10, 2010, in Greenbrae, California) was an American feminist novelist, the co-author of Mrs.
They married in 1940 despite her poor health, which began with a bout of rheumatic fever at age three and lasted her entire life.
[1] She began writing novels with her husband in 1947 with Mrs. Mike, the fictionalized story of their friend Katherine Mary Flannigan who married a Mountie and moved from Boston to the Canadian wilderness.
"[1] Sappho was later made into an opera composed by Daniel Steven Crafts, the libretto by Nancy and Benedict, with the premiere sung by their daughter Deborah in 1998.
Her book Joshua Son of None (1973) was a political thriller about the clandestine cloning of a young assassinated President (strongly implied to be, although never actually named as, John F. Kennedy).