Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography

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University of Chicago Press, 1998 - Architecture - 634 pages
Meryle Secrest's Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography focuses on Wright's family history, personal adventures, and colorful friends and family. Secrest had unprecedented access to an archive of over one hundred thousand of Wright's 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 narrative."—New Republic

"An engaging narrative."—New York Times Book Review

"The real triumph of this biography . . . 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. . . . [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
 

Contents

Bedd Taliesin Taliesins Grave
3
The Black Spot
19
The Shining Brow
51
Aladdin
78
Lieber Meister
103
Sermons in Stones
124
A House Divided
156
Flower in the Crannied Wall
202
Truth Against the World
322
Work Song
344
The Worlds Greatest Architect
375
Taliesin
395
Broad Acres
421
The Revolutionist as Architect
468
That Strange Disease Humility
499
The Shining Land
525

Lord of Her Waking Dreams
223
The Cauldron
249
The Cause Conservative
280
A Stern Chase
303
Notes
565
Selected Bibliography
605
Index
611
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About the author (1998)

Meryle Secrest has written biographies of, among others, Romaine Brooks, Bernard Berenson, Kenneth Clark, Salvador Dalí, Stephen Sondheim, and Frank Lloyd Wright, the last available from the Unviersity of Chicago Press.

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