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Hendrickson, Paul, 1944-
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Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.
Architects -- United States -- Biography.
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Hendrickson, Paul, 1944-
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.
Architects -- United States -- Biography.
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Plagued
by
fire
: the
dreams
and
furies
of
Frank
Lloyd
Wright
/ Paul Hendrickson.
by
Hendrickson, Paul, 1944-
Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
Call #:
720.92 W949h
Subjects
Wright
,
Frank
Lloyd
, 1867-1959.
Architects -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780385353656 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
x, 600 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Notes:
"This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--T. p. verso.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 575-579) and index.
Summary:
"
Frank
Lloyd
Wright
has long been known as a rank egotist who held in contempt almost everything aside from his own genius. Harder to detect, but no less real, is a
Wright
who fully understood, and suffered from, the choices he made. This is the
Wright
whom Paul Hendrickson reveals in this masterful biography: the
Wright
who was haunted by his father, about whom he told the greatest lie of his life. And this, we see, is the
Wright
of many other neglected aspects of his story: his close, and perhaps romantic, relationship with friend and early mentor Cecil Corwin; the eerie, unmistakable role of fires in his life; the connection between the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 and the murder of his mistress, her two children, and four others at his beloved Wisconsin home by a black servant gone mad. In showing us
Wright
's facades along with their cracks, Hendrickson helps us form a fresh, deep, and more human understanding of the man. With prodigious research, unique vision, and his ability to make sense of a life in ways at once unexpected, poetic, and undeniably brilliant, he has given us the defining book on
Wright
."--From publisher.
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