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Frank Lloyd Wright (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

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  • Author: Meryle Secrest
  • First Published: 1992
  • Type of Work: Biography
  • Time of Work: 1867-1991
  • Setting: Primarily the United States
  • Principal Characters: Frank Lloyd Wright, Anna Wright, William Carey Wright, Catherine Wright, Mamah Borthwick Cheney, Miriam Noel Wright, Olgivanna Lloyd Wright
  • Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
  • Subjects: Adultery, Aesthetics, Arson, Architecture or architects
  • Locales: United States

Meryle Secrest is a British-born reporter, editor, and biographer who has written books about Romaine Brooks, Bernard Berenson, Kenneth Clark, and Salvador Dalí. In producing this text, she not only consulted Frank Lloyd Wright’s family and associates but also pored over a depository of more than one hundred thousand items indexed by the Getty Center Archives for the History of Art and Humanities in Santa Monica, California. Her printed notes span thirty-eight pages, her selective bibliography five, and her acknowledgments eight.

The result is a lively life story that features...

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