{"product_id":"frank-lloyd-wright-a-biography-9780226744148","title":"Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography","description":"Meryle Secrest's \u003ci\u003eFrank Lloyd Wright: A Biography\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Secrest seizes the themes most evocative of certain of our cultural myths, forging them into a coherent and emotionally plausible narrative.\"-\u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"An engaging narrative.\"-\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"The real triumph of this biography . . . is the link it makes between Frank Lloyd Wright's personal life and his architecture.\"-\u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Secrest's achievement is to etch Wright's character in sharp relief. . . . [She] presents Wright in his every guise.\"-Blair Kamin, \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"An extremely engaging profile.\"-\u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A spellbinding portrait.\"-\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"The best [biography] so far, a huge and definitive accumulation of fact.\"-\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSecrest, Meryle:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eMeryle Secrest\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50662124093714,"sku":"9780226744148","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7e24e838-672a-4560-a91d-eaba48f9e9b9.jpg?v=1733513554","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/frank-lloyd-wright-a-biography-9780226744148","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}