author
Nan Britton
1896–1991
Best known for the explosive memoir The President's Daughter, she wrote herself into American political history by publicly describing her relationship with Warren G. Harding and naming him as the father of her child.
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The president's daughter
by Nan Britton
About the author
Born in Ohio in 1896, Nan Britton became a controversial public figure because of her long-asserted relationship with Warren G. Harding. In 1927, a few years after Harding's death, she published The President's Daughter, a memoir that described their affair and said Harding was the father of her daughter, Elizabeth Ann.
The book caused a major sensation and is often remembered as an early political tell-all. For decades, her claims were disputed or dismissed, which helped make her story one of the most debated personal scandals connected to an American president.
Britton died in 1991. Her memoir remains the work she is most associated with, both as a personal account and as a book that shaped how later generations understood the blurred line between private lives and public power.