Writings

Manny’s has authored numerous poems, articles, books, and contributed to these publications, among others:

  • Smith College Alumnae Magazine
  • Schoevers Koerier, Amsterdam
  • Rond de Kastanje, Eindhoven
  • The Frank Lloyd Wright Newsletter Vol.3. nr. 3. 3rd Quarter 1980 “Through a Wright Window”
  • American Horticulturist Oct. 1981 Garden Design: Planning a Low-Maintenance Garden
  • Inland Architect, March/April 1984. In the Garden with Frank Lloyd Wright, front cover
  • American Horticulturist, “Keeping Track in the Garden”, Dec. 1985
  • Newsweek Magazine, 3/27/1989 on Salman Rushdie Judgment
  • The Quarterly Newsletter of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy, vol. 2, June 1992
  • The Old House Journal Jan/Feb. 1991 “Prairie Plaster“
  • Professional Stained Glass, May 1991 “Looking through Wright Windows”
  • Professional Stained Glass, January 1992, Kindred Spirits
  • DownToEarthDown to Earth, an Insider’s View of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Tomek House, Southern Illinois University Press, 1995. Available on Amazon.
    Praise on the back cover from Vincent Scully, Brendan Gill, Narciso Menocal, Donald Hoffmann, Walter Creese, Edgar Tafel, and H. Allen Brooks. Reviewed by Prof. Paul Sprague in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Volume 55, Issue 3, Sept 1996.
  • American Bungalow April 1997 A Prairie Bungalow by the Sea
  • Bibliography of Chicago Architecture 1872-1922
  • The Landmark, Sept. 3, 1998 “The Architect’s Apprentice” with Monika Guender
  • Metropolitan Home Sept./Oct 2000, Wright Again
  • Groundcovering 2011 – A selection of garden columns written for the Landmark newspaper Riverside, Illinois, 1986-1996
  • The American Gardener, the Magazine of the American Horticultural Society March/April 2011. “Creative Training for Vines”
  • The American Gardener, Jan/Feb 2013 Flannel Bush: A Beauty to Admire at a Distance
  • Marin Independent Journal, Dec. 17, 2008 “Sharing traditions”: Banket letter recipe.
  • Marin Independent Journal, “Searing Memories rediscovered while dusting a bookshelf”. Nov.2, 2009
  • Marin Independent Journal, January 3, 2012 “How to Ace your life”. Original Title: “Is Life just a card game?”
  • Marin Independent Journal, Feb. 11, 2014. “Mother nurtures more than her children’s green thumbs” (Original Title: “Gardening Lessons”)
  • Dwell Magazine, March 2014
  • American Gardener, May/June 2021, Plant in the Spotlight: American Century Plant (Agave americana)
  • My Little Book of Happiness, 2022, A Memoir
  • Love Letters Cover Love Letters to A Frank Lloyd Wright House, January 2025. 70 pages and 120 images. Available in hardcover on lulu.com.
    Mentioned in the Marin Independent Journal, March 29, 2025.

Photos of the F.F. Tomek House have appeared in calendars, journals, book and Architectural Digest in April 2000.

Manny has received mentions in forewords or bibliographies of books on architectural history by a.o. Donald Hoffmann, Joseph Connors, Robert Twombly, Charles Beveridge and Paul Rocheleau’s book, Frederick Law Olmsted, Meryle Secrest, Brandon Gill, and others.