Frank Lloyd Wright

by Secrest, Meryle

• ISBN13: 9780226744148
• ISBN10: 0226744140
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-05-08
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

Meryle Secrest'sFrank Lloyd Wright: A Biographyfocuses 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

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
1 Bedd Taliesin: Taliesin's Grave	3	(16)
2 The Black Spot	19	(32)
3 The Shining Brow	51	(27)
4 Aladdin	78	(25)
5 Lieber Meister	103	(21)
6 Sermons in Stones	124	(32)
7 A House Divided	156	(46)
8 Flower in the Crannied Wall	202	(21)
9 Lord of Her Waking Dreams	223	(26)
10 The Cauldron	249	(31)
11 The Cause Conservative	280	(23)
12 A Stern Chase	303	(19)
13 Truth Against the World	322	(22)
14 Work Song	344	(31)
15 The World's Greatest Architect	375	(20)
16 Taliesin	395	(26)
17 Broad Acres	421	(47)
18 The Revolutionist as Architect	468	(31)
19 That Strange Disease, Humility	499	(26)
20 The Shining Land	525	(40)
Notes	565	(40)
Selected Bibliography	605	(6)
Index	611