Phyllis Ott is a recognized expressionist painter who studied under Hans Hoffman. Her paintings are owned and displayed worldwide. Phyllis graduated Cum Laude from Harvard, with majors in Architecture and Philosophy. Among her professors were some of the greatest minds of the post-war generation. Her sister Bea Silverman married Norman Mailer, who served as the catalyst to break Bea and Phyllis free from their middle-middle-class Jewish morality and who years later became Phyllis' lover. Phyllis' story is the spiritual quest for the source of the Self. She struggled to accept her role as a woman, as she observed how downtrodden the female sex seemed to be at all times and in all places. Her father, a disabled hero of World War I, instilled in her the love of "wounded" men, and she married three men who had significant physical handicaps. Her third husband was noted artist, Lynfield Ott, slowly going blind as the two forged their path together, a path that led them to India, to the fe