Frank Lloyd Wright

Mr. Wright, you've won my American heart. You belong among the many lovably difficult, genius, hubristic, antiheroic, narcissistic men of the Western literary tradition: Prometheus, Captain Ahab, Faust, Achilles, Don Quixote, Dr. Frankenstein, Tom Sawyer, King Lear and, of course, Mr. Willy Wonka.......more

OK, Huxtable is an architecture critic, so it's predictable that she spends more time on Wright's architecture than his personality. In this format, though, that didn't really work. I love the Penguin Lives series, but this entry points out the dangers of 250 page biographies. First, without more pi......more

Judge the art not the artist and all that but bitterness is still bad aesthetics. Ms Huxtable leans too much on the bitter beer when describing the shortcomings of the Welshman, imho. Does someone who abandoned his wife and six kids, leaving them with the equivalent of thousands of dollars in debt,......more

Frank Lloyd Wright had a remarkable life. His career spanned so many decades and had some many chapters: his architecture, his homes, his families, his tragedies. He was larger-than-life. I listened to this biography as a book on tape about a decade ago. The tempo of the storytelling was engrossing.......more

The most influential person among the masters of Architecture. Any book would not do complete justice for his ideologies and the life he led, yet Ada managed to highlight most of the mind blowing stories and works of his life. Every chapter is worth it.......more