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64 By Anne Lee Phillips As Lynn Wyatt Breezes Past her 90th Birthday, the Book of La Lynn Arrives. fabulous, philanthropic, fashionable life is captured in Lynn Wyatt (Susan Schadt Press, September 2025), a hefty 320-page compendium written by Ronda Carman, who first met the Wyatt family at the Wyatt ranches in South Texas. As Elton John writes in the book's foreword, "Lynn Wyatt is a force of nature." Historic photographs and memorabilia chronicle her early life as a Sakowitz department store heiress; her marriage to oil magnate Oscar Wyatt; playing hostess to dignitaries and celebrities at her grand John Staub-designed River Oaks Boulevard estate, known as the Wyatt Hyatt; her impact on the community through her support of Houston cultural institutions; and her role as a fashion icon attending couture shows and landing in the International Best-Dressed List Hall of Fame. Wyatt is a master storyteller, and Carman spent more than four years conversing with her while delving through her archives, which are now housed at Woodson Research Center at Rice University. L ynn Sakowitz Wyatt embodies the ultimate Texas woman, or any woman anywhere in the world — eternally graceful with equal doses of grit and glamour, fiercely devoted to family and community. Her La Vie en Lynn Lynn Wyatt with her Warhols at her Houston home, Allington, 1983 Andy Warhol Polaroid of Lynn Wyatt, circa 1980 PHOTO BY MARY ELLEN MARK. © 2023 THE ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION FOR THE VISUAL ARTS, INC./LICENSED BY ARS, NY ART PHOTO BY THOMAS DUBROCK