Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography

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. Meryle Secrest's Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography focuses on Wright's family history, personal adventures, and colorful friends and family. 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

Bruce Baldey said Character Insights.. The best Bio on Frank I have read. (Gill's Many Masks comes in second because, in my view, it presents a less convincing explanation of his character.)What is exceptional and the result of new research by Secrest is the family history, especially his Welsh ancestry.The Author presents a credible explanation of Fran. J. Siegel said Artistic Genius. Very compelling book that relates the life of Frank Lloyd Wright as a master of innovative architecture. It reveals his personal flaws and his genius. It was amazing how out of adversity, he always managed to come out on top. He was a very eccentric personality, a man truly ahead of his time.I really loved this boo. Essential Book To Know About Frank Lloyd Wright James A. Nash This is the story of a man who produced a group of the most significant buildings in the twentieth century, Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect.It is not the complete story of who he was and what he did but Meryle Secrest has opened the records and begun revealing, in a very easy ro read biography, the people, events and

BOMC and QPB alternates. A definitive portrait of a mercurial titan. She discusses the dynamics of the architect's three marriages, recounts his clashes with Louis Sullivan and Lewis Mumford, and digs beneath his "quasi-mystical Celtic beliefs" to pinpoint the multiple influences on his fervent quest for an organic architecture. . Drawing on a trove of letters, Secrest ( Salvador Dali ) traces Wright's "secret conviction of worthlessness" to the contradictory influences of his freethinking, erratic Welsh mother and his jealous, spendthrift father, a New England minister. Photos. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Publishers Weekly In this superb, subtle, demythologizing biography of Wright (1869-1959), we meet a shrewd yet gullible architect who fostered a view of himself as a misunderstood, embattled genius, a narcissist who unconsciously courted catastrophe while blaming the