Frank Lloyd Wright
A Biography

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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. This biography focuses on Wright's family history, personal adventures and colourful friends and family. The author had unprecedented access to an archive of over 100,000 of Wright's letters, photographs, drawings and books, and she also interviewed surviving devotees, students and relatives.