Wright\'s family history, personal adventures, and colorful friends are explored in this evocative biography.
She] presents Wright in his every guise.-Blair Kamin, Chicago Tribune An extremely engaging profile.-- The Philadelphia Inquirer A spellbinding portrait.-- Library Journal The best biography] so far, a huge and definitive accumulation of fact.-- Time. . . . is the link it makes between Frank Lloyd Wright\'s personal life and his architecture.-- The Economist Secrest\'s achievement is to etch Wright\'s character in sharp relief. . .
Secrest seizes the themes most evocative of certain of our cultural myths, forging them into a coherent and emotionally plausible narrative.-- New Republic An engaging narrative.-- New York Times Book Review The real triumph of this Biography .
The result is an explicit portrait of both the genius architect and the provocative con-man.
She also interviewed surviving devotees, students, and relatives.
Secrest had unprecedented access to an archive of over one hundred thousand of Wright\'s letters, photographs, drawings, and books.
Meryle Secrest\'s Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography focuses on Wright\'s family history, personal adventures, and colorful friends and family. 121 photos. (She) presents Wright in his every guise.--Blair Kamin, Chicago Tribune. . . .
Secrest\'s achievement is to etch Wright\'s character in sharp relief.
Secrest had unprecedented access to an extensive archive of Wright\'s letters, photographs, drawings and books.
Wright\'s family history, personal adventures, and colorful friends are explored in this evocative biography