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Meryle Secrests Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography focuses on Wrights family history, personal adventures, and colorful friends and family. Secrest had unprecedented access to an archive of over one hundred thousand of Wrights letters, photographs, drawings, and books. She also interviewed surviving devotees, students, and relatives. The result is an explicit portrait of both the genius architect and the provocative con-man.

Secrest seizes the themes most evocative of certain of our cultural myths, forging them into a coherent and emotionally plausible Republic

An engaging York Times Book Review

The real triumph of this biography . . . is the link it makes between Frank Lloyd Wrights personal life and his Economist

Secrests achievement is to etch Wrights character in sharp relief. . . . [She] presents Wright in his every guise.-Blair Kamin, Chicago Tribune

An extremely engaging Philadelphia Inquirer

A spellbinding Journal

The best [biography] so far, a huge and definitive accumulation of

Author: Meryle Secrest
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 05/08/1998
Pages: 652
Weight: 1.9lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.30w x 1.60d
ISBN: 9780226744148
Language: English