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frank lloyd wright a biography
meryle secrests frank lloyd wright a biography focuses on wrights family history personal adventures and colorful friends and family . secrest had unprecedented access to an archive of over one hundred thousand of wrights 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 . br secrest seizes the themes most evocative of certain of our cultural myths forging them into a coherent and emotionally plausible narrative . new republic br an engaging narrative . new york times book review br the real triumph of this biography ... is the link it makes between frank lloyd wrights personal life and his architecture . the economist br secrests achievement is to etch wrights character in sharp relief ... . she presents wright in his every guise . blair kamin chicago tribune br an extremely engaging profile . the philadelphia inquirer br a spellbinding portrait . library journal br the best biography so far a huge and definitive accumulation of fact . time