Frank Lloyd Wright - by Meryle Secrest (Paperback)

About the Book

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.

Book Synopsis

A biography of the master architect that Time said was "the best so far" and Library Journal called "a spellbinding portrait 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.
The result is the most engaging and thorough account ever of Wright's life, work, and professional and personal circle, a gripping account of a complicated, challenging genius.

Review Quotes

"A spellbinding portrait."

-- "Library Journal"

"An engaging narrative."

-- "New York Times Book Review"

"An extremely engaging profile."

-- "Philadelphia Inquirer"

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

-- "The New Republic"

"Secrest's achievement is to etch Wright's character in sharp relief. . . . [She] presents Wright in his every guise."

--Blair Kamin "Chicago Tribune"

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

-- "Time"

"The real triumph of this biography . . . is the link it makes between Frank Lloyd Wright's personal life and his architecture."

-- "The Economist"