Martie Sanger ’56

Martha "Martie" Frick Symington Sanger ’56 is a writer, historian, and great-granddaughter of Henry Clay Frick. In her biographies, Henry Clay Frick: An Intimate Portrait (1998) and Helen Clay Frick: Bittersweet Heiress (2007), Martie delves deep into her family history to shed new light on her ancestors’ lives. In 2001, Martie published The Henry Clay Frick Houses: Architecture, Interiors, Landscapes in the Golden Era. Martie debuted her most recent work, Maryland Blood: An American Family in War and Peace, in 2016. A departure from her Frick research, the book follows the Hambleton family through more than 350 years of American history, beginning with pioneer William Hambleton’s arrival on the Eastern Shore in 1657.