Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography - Meryle Secrest

Wright's family history, personal adventures, and colorful friends are explored in this evocative biography. Secrest had unprecedented access to an extensive archive of Wright's letters, photographs, drawings and books. Secrest's achievement is to etch Wright's character in sharp relief. . . . (She) presents Wright in his every guise.--Blair Kamin, Chicago Tribune. 121 photos. \nMeryle 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. \nSecrest seizes the themes most evocative of certain of our cultural myths, forging them into a coherent and emotionally plausible narrative.--New Republic \n \nAn engaging narrative.--New York Times Book Review \n \nThe real triumph of this biography . . . is the link it makes between Frank Lloyd Wright's personal life and his architecture.--The Economist \n \nSecrest's achievement is to etch Wright's character in sharp relief. . . . She] presents Wright in his every guise.-Blair Kamin, Chicago Tribune \n \nAn extremely engaging profile.--The Philadelphia Inquirer \n \nA spellbinding portrait.--Library Journal \n \nThe best biography] so far, a huge and definitive accumulation of fact.--Time\n