Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright

by Paul Hendrickson

Book Overview

From the award-winning and nationally best-selling author of Hemingway's Boat and Sons of Mississippi--an illuminating, path-breaking biography that will change the way we understand the life, mind, and work of the premier American architect.

Frank Lloyd Wright has long been known as a rank egotist who held in contempt most everything aside from his own genius. Harder to detect, but no less real, is a Wright who fully understood,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385353650
• ISBN13: 9780385353656
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.6" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Not a biography

This is more a collection of rants by the author on what he perceived as the subject's racist lifestyle. True or not, it was neither informative nor entertaining. I never finished the book.