Paul Hendrickson.
PAUL HENDRICKSON: FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT BIOGRAPHY
PLAGUED BY FIRE: tHE dREAMS AND fURIES OF fRANK lLOYD wRIGHT (2020)
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Frank Lloyd Wright (born 1867) was the prominent American architect of the twentieth century. He designed more than 1,000 buildings over a working life of seventy years. Several of his buildings have become the most famous 20th century buildings in the USA. These include Fallingwater (1935), a private house built out over a waterfall, The Johnson Wax headuarters (1939), and the Guggenheim Museum in New York City (1959). He was an educator as well as an architect, influence hundreds of architectural students who passed through his Taliesin architecture school.
Paul Hendrickson gives a personal and kaleidoscopic account of Wright’s life, including his tempestuous private life. This included three marriages and the murder of his first wife and her children at Wrights Taliesin estate.
Reviewing the book in the Standard, Marcus Field wrote: ‘This book will not be everybody’s cup of tea. The writing is baroque, much of it in the first person, as Hendrickson chases down the architect and his hauntings, many of them involving fire and grisly deaths. But the contradictory Wright who emerges, both hateful and human, is probably the truest portrait of the man we have yet.’
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Paul Hendrickson is a senior lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania. His previous career was in journalism including 24 years as a fature writer at the Washington Post. In addition to his book on Frank Lloyd Wright, Hendrickson has published biographies of Robert McNamara and Ernest Hemingway.
