The Broidered Garment

The daughter of an international financier, Mona Martinsen, was studying sculpture in Paris with the renowned Auguste Rodin. John G. Neihardt, the son of an American pioneer family on the Great Plains, was a brilliant, but impoverished poet and writer. While studying in Paris, Mona was captivated by a little book of poems, A Bundle of Myrrh, a gift from her mother. Mona wrote to the young poet, and through a series of letters between the poet in Bancroft, Nebraska, and the sculptor in Paris, France, they discovered much in common. Drawing on correspondence, interviews, archival research, and her own memories, Hilda Martinsen Neihardt tells the story of how her parents met, fell in love, raised a family and grew old together.