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BIOGRAPHIES
Date: DJ 1946 Title: My Father Who is on Earth (Published by G. P. Putman's Sons, New York) (Hard Cover DJ)
Author: Wright, John Lloyd
Description: An unconventional portrait of an unconventional man - Frank Lloyd Wright, stormy petrel of architecture. The author is his son, who tells the things only he could tell about his father. Review in Saturday Review. Original cover price $3.50. (First Edition) (Sweeney 648)
Size: 5.75 x 8.5
Pages: Pp 195
S#: 0648.00.0607
Date: Cover 1946 Title: My Father Who is on Earth (Hard Cover) (Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York)
Author: Wright, John Lloyd
Description: An unconventional portrait of an unconventional man - Frank Lloyd Wright, stormy petrel of architecture. The author is his son, who tells the things only he could tell about his father. Original cover price $3.50. (First Edition) (Sweeney 648)
Size: 5.75 x 8.5
Pages: Pp 195
S#: 0648.01.0101
Date: 1946 Title: My Father Who is on Earth (Hard Cover - Rebound by the Milwaukee Public Library) (Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York)
Author: Wright, John Lloyd
Description: An unconventional portrait of an unconventional man - Frank Lloyd Wright, stormy petrel of architecture. The author is his son, who tells the things only he could tell about his father. Original cover price $3.50. (First Edition) (Milwaukee Public Library Recover) (Sweeney 648)
Size: 5.25 x 8
Pages: Pp 195
S#: 0648.02.0200
Date: 1992 Title: My Father Who is on Earth (Soft Cover) (Published by Dover Publications, Inc., New York)
Author: Wright, John Lloyd
Description: An unconventional portrait of an unconventional man - Frank Lloyd Wright, stormy petrel of architecture. Originally published under the title My Father Who Is on Earth. The author is his son, who tells the things only he could tell about his father. Original SC List Price $5.95. (Second Edition) (Sweeney 648)
Size: 5.5 x 8.5
Pages: Pp 195
S#: 0648.03.0400
Date: 1994 Title: My Father, Frank Lloyd Wright. (Hard Cover DJ) (Published by Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale and Edwardsville)
Author: Wright, John Lloyd; Intro: Menocal, Narciso G.
Description: "A New Edition Including Comments, Responses, and Documents By Frank Lloyd Wright and John Lloyd Wright." Jacket: "John assured his father that he would like the book and sent him a copy on its publication - March 29, 1946. A few days later, Frank Lloyd Wright returned it with numerous comments penciled in the margin, responding to what his son had written, and with a request that a new, second copy be sent to him. John complied with the request but first transcribed not only all his father's comments into the clean copy in black pencil but also his own answers to them in red pencil. He also transcribed all these comments into a third copy, again using colors to differentiate his comments from those of his father. This third copy is the basis for this new edition of John Lloyd Wright's book." Begins with a foreword by Angela Giral, Avery Librarian, and an introduction by Menocal. In addition, this volume includes a new foreword, three insertions, notes throughout by son and father, an addendum, an articled entitled "Special Problems that Befall a Son of a Great Man," written in 1957, and a postscript written by his daughter, intended for a revised edition planned for 1962 but never published. (Fourth Edition)
Size: 8.5 x 8.75
Pages: Pp 231
ST#: 1997.60.0314
Date: 2014
Title: My Father, Frank Lloyd Wright (Soft Cover) (Published by Dover Publications, Inc., New York)
Author: Wright, John Lloyd
Description: This Dover edition, first published in 1992, is an unabridged and slightly altered republication of the work originally published under the title My Father Who Is on Earth, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1946. Back Cover: "Frank Lloyd Wright is widely regarded as the twentieth century's greatest architect " an unconventional genius who transformed both residential and commercial building design with his concept of "organic" architecture. During a long and productive life, Wright designed some 800 buildings, received scores of honors and awards, and left an indelible imprint on modern architectural theory and practice. In this charming, readable memoir, Wright the architect and father comes to life through the vivid recollections and firsthand knowledge of his son. John Lloyd Wright characterizes his father as "a rebel, a jolt to civilization, whose romantic theme - purposive planning and organic unity in inventing and combining forms - is an epoch in the architecture of the world." His unique view of the "epoch" will intrigue architects, students, and all who admire the work of this visionary and uncompromising spirit. An added attraction of this volume is the inclusion of the complete text of William C. Gannet's The House Beautiful, an extremely rare work designed and printed by Frank Lloyd Wright." Original soft cover list price $10.95. (Second Dover Edition)
Size: 5.5 x 8.5
Pages: Pp 189
ST#: 2014.48.0420Date: 1959 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright, Rebel in Concrete (Hard Cover - Library Binding) (Published by Macrae Smith Company, Philadelphia)
Author: Forsee, Aylesa
Description: Includes 20 full pages of photographs. (First Edition) (Sweeney 1263)
Size: 6.25 x 9.25
Pages: Pp 182
S#: 1263.00.0500
Date: 1959 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright, Rebel in Concrete (Hard Cover - DJ) (Published by Macrae Smith Company, Philadelphia)
Author: Forsee, Aylesa
Description: Includes 20 full pages of photographs. Original HC List Price $2.95. (First Edition) (Sweeney 1263)
Size: 6.25 x 9.25
Pages: Pp 182
S#: 1263.01.0902
Date: 1959 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright, Rebel in Concrete (Published by Macrae Smith Company: Philadelphia) (Hard Cover DJ)
Author: Forsee, Aylesa
Description: Includes 20 full pages of photographs. Original cover price $4.50. (Fourth Edition) (Sweeney 1263)
Size: 6.25 x 9.25
Pages: Pp 182
S#: 1263.02.0307
Date: 1961 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography (Hard Cover - DJ) (Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York)
Author: Farr, Finis
Description: Dust jacket: This is the first full-length biography of Wright, the greatest American Architect who became one of the great American legends. "I intend," said Wright on more than one occasion, "to be the greatest architect who ever lived." Original HC List Price $5.95. (First Edition) (Sweeney 1459)
Size: 5.75 x 8.75
Pages: Pp 293
S#: 1459.00.0799
Date: 1962 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography (British Version) (Hard Cover - DJ) (Published by Jnathan Cape, London)
Author: Farr, Finis
Description: First published in the US, 1961. Different version from US copy. 6 x 8.9. (First British Edition)
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: Pp 224
S#: 1459.01.0405
Date: 1961 Title: El Dorado, Oakland Tribune - Nov 5, 1961 (Published by the Oakland Tribune, Oakland, CA)
Author: Pierovich, Andrew
Description: Book Review: "Frank Lloyd Wright," Finis Farr, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, $5.95. "This first full-length biography of Frank Lloyd Wright by Finis Farr moves swiftly from childhood, where the indomitable architect found high satisfaction in Froebel blocks - elemental forms... While Farr treats his subject with admiration and compassion, somehow small doubts about Wright - the American legend - are generated. The textual illustrations point up many of the master's uneven results - that Rosicrucian horror, "Hollyhock House," the Barnsdall residence in Hollywood; the pill-box - like Kalita Humphreys Theater in Dallas..." Note: Pierovich's descriptions, not Farr's. Includes one photograph of the Guggenheim Museum.
Size: 11.5 x 15
Pages: Pp 4
S#: 1461.01.0615
Date: 1962 Title: Living Architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright (Hard Cover) (Published by Britannica Books, Chicago)
Author: Ransohoff, Doris
Description: Original HC List Price $2.95. (Compton's) (First Edition) Two copies. (Sweeney 1486)
Size: 5.6 x 8.5
Pages: Pp 191
S#: 1486.00.0499, 1486.00.0899
Date: 1965
Title: Valley of the God-Almighty Joneses
Author: Barney, Maginel Wright
Description: Written by Frank Lloyd Wright's Sister (First Edition) (Sweeney 1597)
Size:
Pages: Pp 156
S#: 1597.00.0902Date: 1965 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright America's Greatest Architect (Hard Cover - DJ) (Published by Harcourt, Brace and World, New York)
Author: Jacobs, Herbert
Description: A stormy genius, idolized by his devoted students and followers but misunderstood and often mistrusted by those too conventional to follow his swift imagination, Wright was the leading force in the development of modern architecture. Jacobs commissioned Wright to design two homes for his family. Original HC List Price $3.95 (First Edition) (Sweeney 1601)
Size: 5.75 x 8.25
Pages: Pp 223
S#: 1601.00.0899
Date: 1991 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright America's Greatest Architect (Hard Cover) (Published by Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut)
Author: Jacobs, Herbert
Description: Collector's Edition, bound in genuine leather. Wright's Luxfer Prism Glass design used on cover. (First Easton Press Edition) (Sweeney 1601)
Size: 6 x 8.75
Pages: Pp 223
S#: 1601.01.0506Date: 1966 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright, His Life, His Work, His Words (Hard Cover - DJ) (Published by Horizon Press)
Author: Wright, Olgivanna Lloyd
Description: Original HC List Price $10.00 (First Edition) (Sweeney 1648)
Original HC List Price $10.00 (First Edition) (Sweeney 1648) Three copies, Two with Dust Jacket.
Size:
Pages: Pp 224
S#: 1648.00.1198, 1648.01.0699, 1648.02.0501
Date: 1970 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright, His Life, His Work, His Words (Hard Cover) (Published by Editorial Troquel S.A., San Jose, Buenos Aires)
Author: Wright, Olgivanna Lloyd
Description: (Spanish Version) Very similar to the 1966 English version. (First Edition) (Sweeney 1648)
Size: 8x10
Pages: Pp 240
S#: 1648.03.0906
Date: 1970 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright, His Life, His Work, His Words (Great Britain Version) (Published by Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons Ltd., London, Nairobi, Kenya; Victoria, Australia; Johannesburg, S. Africa) (Hard Cover DJ)
Author: Wright, Olgivanna Lloyd
Description: Exactly the same as the 1966 English version except for the cover and dust jacket. Original cover price 70s (£3.50). (First Edition) (Sweeney 1648)
Size: 8.25 x 10.25
Pages: Pp 224
S#: 1648.04.0407
Date: 1968 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright - Rebel Architect (Hard Cover - Library Binding) (Published by Franklin Watts, Inc. New York)
Author: Naden, Corinne J.
Description: He may well have been America's greatest architect. He was probably the most influential architect of any age. Years ahead of his time, he created a new kind of architectural expression that has never been equaled. Two Copies. (First and Second Edition) (Sweeney 1729)
Size: 5.75 x 8.5
Pages: Pp 147
S#: 1729.00.1000, 1729.02.0105
Date: 1972 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright American Architect (Hard Cover - DJ)
Author: Willard, Charlotte
Description: Original HC List Price $5.95. (First Edition) (Sweeney 1881)
Size: 5.75 x 8.5
Pages: Pp 183
S#: 1881.00.0100
Date: 1973 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright: An Interpretive Biography (Hard Cover - DJ) (Published by Harper & Row, Publications, New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London)
Author: Twombly, Robert
Description: Twombly presents a complete look at the man who demythologized American architecture through liberating the concepts of ram materials, the wool and steel, which were his tools. His strong horizontal lines, projecting eaves and centralized family areas spoke of Wright's understanding of the quality of life. Portions of this work previously appear in "The Wisconsin Magazine of History" and in "American Quarterly". (First Edition) (Sweeney 1920)
Size: 5.6 x 8.4
Pages: Pp 373
S#: 1920.00.0199
Date: HC 1979 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright, His Life and His Architecture (Hard Cover - DJ) (Published by John Wiley & Sons, New York, Chichester, Brisbane, Toronto)
Author: Twombly, Robert C.
Description: A revision and update of "Frank Lloyd Wright, An Interpretive Biography". A complete biography covering Wright's private life, architecture, and role in American society, culture, and politics. Views Wright's buildings as biographical as well as social statements, analyzing his work by type, category, and individual structure. Examines Wright's struggle to develop a new artistic statement, his dramatic personal life, and his political and economic ideas, including those on cities, energy conservation, cooperative home building, and environmental preservation. Includes over 150 illustrations (photographs and drawings), and the most exhaustive bibliography of Wright's published work available. Original HC List Price $39.95. (Second Edition)
Size: 6.5 x 9.25
Pages: Pp 444
S#: 1979.02.0100
Date: SC 1979 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright, His Life and His Architecture (Soft Cover) (Published by John Wiley & Sons, New York, Chichester, Brisbane, Toronto)
Author: Twombly, Robert C.
Description: A revision and update of "Frank Lloyd Wright, An Interpretive Biography". A complete biography covering Wright's private life, architecture, and role in American society, culture, and politics. Views Wright's buildings as biographical as well as social statements, analyzing his work by type, category, and individual structure. Examines Wright's struggle to develop a new artistic statement, his dramatic personal life, and his political and economic ideas, including those on cities, energy conservation, cooperative home building, and environmental preservation. Includes over 150 illustrations (photographs and drawings), and the most exhaustive bibliography of Wright's published work available. Original SC List Price $21.95. (Fifth Edition)
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: Pp 444
ST#: 1979.19.0207
Date: 1973
Title: What Makes It Great? (Soft Cover) (Published by Winthrop Laboratories, New York)
Author: Wright, Olgivanna Lloyd
Description: "What Makes it Great? My husband created Organic Architecture because of his love of the earth, love of people, and concern for their happiness. He saw too many buildings that related little to human beings or to their environment. He wanted to create an architectural environment of such nature that it would have the effect upon man of making him nobler in every respect so that the building in which he lives and works would be a constant source of inspiration to him..." Olgivanna Lloyd Wright summarizes the life and work of Frank Lloyd Wright. Includes ten photographs and illustrations of Wright's work. (First Edition) (Sweeney #1927)
Size: 9 x 11.75
Pages: Pp 8
S#: 1927.00.0522Date: 1981 Title: Writings on Wright, Selected Comments on Frank Lloyd Wright (Hard Cover - DJ) (Published by MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, England)
Author: Brooks, H. Allen
Description: "In this book Allen Brooks has produced biography and architectural history by the unorthodox method of weaving many voices together into a single fabric. The focus is on the reality and myth of Frank Lloyd Wright. The writings cover Wright's personality and life style, Wrights clients and his work, and more recent evaluations by Lewis Mumford and Reyner Banham, among others." (Back Cover.) Original HC List Price $17.50, (First Edition)
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: Pp 229
ST#: 1981.01.0201
Date: 1983 Title: Writings on Wright, Selected Comments on Frank Lloyd Wright (Soft Cover) (Published by The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England)
Author: Brooks, H. Allen
Description: First printed in hard back in 1981. "In this book Allen Brooks has produced biography and architectural history by the unorthodox method of weaving many voices together into a single fabric. The focus is on the reality and myth of Frank Lloyd Wright. The writings cover Wright's personality and life style, Wrights clients and his work, and more recent evaluations by Lewis Mumford and Reyner Banham, among others." (Back Cover.) Original list price $7.95, (First SC Edition)
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: Pp 229
ST#: 1983.38.0116
Date: 1983 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright (Hard Cover DJ) (Published by Henschelverlag Kunst und Gesellschaft, Berlin.)
Author: Lysiak, Waldemar
Description: Text in German. A Polish edition was first published in 1982 by Artady, Warsaw. Title of Original Polish Issue: Frank Lloyd Wright. From Polish translated by Renate Boning. Printed in Poland. Includes an additional 60 pages of plates. (First Edition)
Size: 7.9 x 9.25
Pages: Pp 28 (88)
ST#: 1983.29.1213
Date: 1983 HC Title: Man About Town (Hard Cover) (Published by The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass and London, England)
Author: Muschamp, Herbert
Description: Original HC List Price $15.00. Frank Lloyd Wright in New York City. (First Edition)
Size: 6.25 x 9.5
Pages: Pp 214
ST#: 1983.16.0706
Date: 1983 SC Title: Man About Town (Soft Cover) (Published by The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass and London, England)
Author: Muschamp, Herbert
Description: Original SC List Price $7.95. Frank Lloyd Wright in New York City. (First SC Edition)
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: Pp 214
ST#: 1983.02.0201
Date: 1986 Title: An American Genius: Frank Lloyd Wright (Hard Cover - DJ) (Published by Philosophical Library, New York)
Author: Einbinder, Harvey
Description: Original HC List Price $17.95. (First Edition)
Size: 6.25 x 9.25
Pages: Pp 435
ST#: 1986.17.0105
Date: 1987 Title: Many Masks, A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright (Hard Cover DJ) (Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York)
Author: Gill, Brendan
Description: Gill, architectural critic for the New Yorker, was friends with Wright and his third wife. Debunking yet sympathetic, this biography separates the man from the self-made myths. Wright portrays himself as innocent hero-victim of a corrupt society, but here we see an artful dodger molded by a boyhood filled with shame and anguish. Gill evaluates which of Wright's projects failed by the architect's own standards, and which ones succeeded. Two copies. (First Edition)
Size: 6.25 x 9.5
Pages: Pp 544
ST#: 1987.06.0399, 1987.43.0507
Date: 1987
Title: Brendan Gill 1979 (Author). Brendan Gill (1914 - 1997) was an author and critic.
Description: He began writing for The New Yorker in 1936. He was the staff film critic from 1960 to 1967, theatre critic from 1968 to 1987, and columnist from 1987 to 1997 as an architectural critic on historic preservation. He is standing in what is presumed his office. Books are covering his shelves and desk. In 1987, he wrote "Many Masks: A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright." Stamped on Verso: "Thu Feb 1 1979" and "Houston Chronicle Library." Clipping pasted to verso: Many Masks: A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright, by Brendan Gill, Above, is the first major biography of the renowned architect." Stamped on clipping: "Sun Dec 13 1987." Acquired from the archives of the Houston Chronicle.
Size: Original 10 x 8 B&W photograph.
ST#: 1987.112.0819Date: 1988 Title: Many Masks, A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright (Soft Cover) (Published by Ballantine Books, New York)
Author: Gill, Brendan
Description: Gill, architectural critic for the New Yorker, was friends with Wright and his third wife. Debunking yet sympathetic, this biography separates the man from the self-made myths. Wright portrays himself as innocent hero-victim of a corrupt society, but here we see an artful dodger molded by a boyhood filled with shame and anguish. Gill evaluates which of Wright's projects failed by the architect's own standards, and which ones succeeded. Copyright 1987. Original SC List Price $12.95. (First Ballantine Edition November 1988)
Size:
Pages: Pp 544
ST#: 1987.07.1100
Date: 1998 Title: Many Masks, A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright (Soft Cover) (Published by Da Capo Press, New York)
Author: Gill, Brendan
Description: Gill, architectural critic for the New Yorker, was friends with Wright and his third wife. Debunking yet sympathetic, this biography separates the man from the self-made myths. Wright portrays himself as innocent hero-victim of a corrupt society, but here we see an artful dodger molded by a boyhood filled with shame and anguish. Gill evaluates which of Wright's projects failed by the architect's own standards, and which ones succeeded. Original SC List Price $17.95. (First Da Capo Edition)
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: Pp 544
ST#: 1998.40.0305
Date: 1990 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright: Genius! The Artist & the Process (Hard Cover, Library Binding)
Author: Murphy, Wendy Buehr
Description: Original HC Library Binding List Price $42.95. (First Edition)
Size:
Pages: Pp 128
ST#: 1990.13.0102
Date: 1992 HC Title: Frank Lloyd Wright (Hard Cover - Library Binding)
Author: McDonough, Yona Zeldis
Description: Original HC List Price $14.35, Library Binding $19.95. (Chelsea House Library of Biography) (First Edition)
Size: 7.5 x 9.5
Pages: Pp 112
ST#: 1992.42.0804
Date: 1992 SC Title: Frank Lloyd Wright (Soft Cover)
Author: McDonough, Yona Zeldis
Description: Original SC List Price $7.95. (Chelsea House Library of Biography) (Third Edition)
Size: 7 x 9.25
Pages: Pp 112
ST#: 1992.05.0101
Date: 1992 HC Title: Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography (Hard Cover - DJ) (Published by Alfred A. Knopf)
Author: Secrest, Meryle
Description: Wright remains for many historians America's preeminent architect, the force of his personality and the strength of his reputation endure untarnished. Drawing on the massive archives of the Wright Memorial Foundation, Secrest writes with authority and compassion about Wright's long and turbulent career. Her exhaustive scholarship provides fresh insights into Wright's personality, making this biography essential reading for anyone with an interest in American architecture. Original HC List Price $30.00. (First Edition)
Size: 6.5 x 9.5
Pages: Pp 634
ST#: 1992.06.0599
Date: 1992 SC Title: Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography (Soft Cover) (Published by Alfred A. Knopt, Inc., New York)
Author: Secrest, Meryle
Description: Wright remains for many historians America's preeminent architect, the force of his personality and the strength of his reputation endure untarnished. Drawing on the massive archives of the Wright Memorial Foundation, Secrest writes with authority and compassion about Wright's long and turbulent career. Her exhaustive scholarship provides fresh insights into Wright's personality, making this biography essential reading for anyone with an interest in American architecture. (First Edition)
Size: 6.1 x 9.2
Pages: Pp 634
ST#: 1992.60.0607
Date: 1998 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography (Soft Cover) (Published by The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, London)
Author: Secrest, Meryle
Description: Meryle Secrest is the first biographer to have full access to the Wright Archives. Her study of the architect, more than five years' work and illustrated with 121 photographs, is a stunning feat of biographical narrative, sustained analysis and compassionate insight. Original SC List Price $20.00. (Second Edition)
Size: 5.25 x 8
Pages: Pp 634
ST#: 1998.28.0904
Date: 1993 Title: About Wright: An Album of Recollections by Those Who Knew Frank Lloyd Wright (Hard Cover - DJ) (Published by John Wiley & Sons)
Author: Tafel, Edgar
Description: In this nostalgic scrapbook, associates of Frank Lloyd Wright describe the architect as a constant stream of energy, a virtuoso draftsman, a man of theatrical presence and hubris with a supreme belief in the importance of his own work. Tafel, an architect and author of Apprentice to Genius, supervised the construction of several of Wright's most famous buildings. Here he stitches together letters, photos, news clips and interviews with Wright's apprentices, clients, contractors, friends, acquaintances, his third wife Olgivanna, their daughter Iovanna, his sons David and Lloyd, plus comments by notables such as Arthur Miller, Robert Moses, Philip Johnson and Andy Rooney. We eavesdrop on ego clashes among apprentices and come to appreciate how Wright's rapport with clients translated into the grammar of the houses he designed for them. This is an intimate, humanizing portrait of a towering figure. (Publisher's Weekly) Original HC list price $34.95. (Second Edition)
Size: 8.5 x 9.
Pages: Pp 326
ST#: 1993.18.0302
Date: 1993 Title: About Wright: An Album of Recollections by Those Who Knew Frank Lloyd Wright (Soft Cover) (Published by John Wiley & Sons)
Author: Tafel, Edgar
Description: In this nostalgic scrapbook, associates of Frank Lloyd Wright describe the architect as a constant stream of energy, a virtuoso draftsman, a man of theatrical presence and hubris with a supreme belief in the importance of his own work. Tafel, an architect and author of Apprentice to Genius, supervised the construction of several of Wright's most famous buildings. Here he stitches together letters, photos, news clips and interviews with Wright's apprentices, clients, contractors, friends, acquaintances, his third wife Olgivanna, their daughter Iovanna, his sons David and Lloyd, plus comments by notables such as Arthur Miller, Robert Moses, Philip Johnson and Andy Rooney. We eavesdrop on ego clashes among apprentices and come to appreciate how Wright's rapport with clients translated into the grammar of the houses he designed for them. This is an intimate, humanizing portrait of a towering figure. (Publisher's Weekly) Original SC list price $19.95. (Second Edition) Original list price $19.95.
Size: 8 x 9
Pages: Pp 326
ST#: 1993.77.0315
Date: 2001 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright, Recollections by Those Who Knew Him (Soft Cover) (Published by Dover Publications, Inc. Mineola, New York)
Author: Tafel, Edgar
Description: First published in 1993 under the title "About Wright, An Album of Recollections by Those Who Knew Frank Lloyd Wright", published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York. "Multifaceted view of Wright compiled by an accomplished architect, a former Wright apprentice, includes candid comments from apprentices and draftsmen, friends, clients, Wright's children, and well-known figures such as Philip Johnson, Robert Moses, Arthur Miller, and Anne Baxter. "An intimate, humanizing portrait of a towering figure." " Publishers Weekly." (Publisher's description.) Original list price $16.95. 8.3 x 9.2. (First Dover Edition)
Size: 8.3 x 9.2
Pages: Pp 326
ST#: 2001.51.0511
Date: 1996 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright: Maverick Architect (Hard Cover - DJ)
Author: Davis, Frances A.
Description: DJ: Davis tells the story of a brilliant architect - sometimes difficult, sometimes controversial, but always dedicated to finding new ways to share his vision with the world. Original HC List Price $25.26. (First Edition)
Size: 6.25 x 8.75
Pages: Pp 128
ST#: 1996.24.0602
Date: 1997
Title: Notes on John Marin and Frank Lloyd Wright (Soft Cover) (Published by Anthology Film Archives, New York City)
Author: Davis, Jim
Description: Editor's Introduction: "These accounts about painter John Marin and architect Frank Lloyd Wright are from the journals and notebooks of Jim Davis, painter, light sculptor, and film-maker who was a friend of both Marin and Wright. Davis met them in the 1940s when each was a legend. Davis knew he was in the presence of remarkable artists, so it is not surprising that he began to make notes on his meetings with them. In 1950 both Marin and Wright asked Davis to make films about their art. In each case Davis, whose total film experience has been limited to making abstract films, first demurred but finally gave way..." (First Edition)
Size: 5.5 x 8.5
Pages: Pp 124
ST#: 1997.79.0718Date: 1999 Title: Basic Frank Lloyd Wright. Legend And Fact About America's Most Creative Architect. (Soft Cover) (Published by One Palm Books, an imprint of Michel Publishing Serves, Sherman Oaks, CA)
Author: Michel, Henry J.
Description: In this compact volume are related the significant events in the architect's life from his unsettling boyhood in a disruptive family environment in the mid-nineteenth century, through a series of personal excesses and tragedies while at the same time he blazes a new trail for American architecture. The book concentrates on his personal life as it also chronicles, in layman's language, the legendary stories of his professional triumphs. (Publisher's description.) Original list price $9.95. (First Edition)
Size: 5.5 x 8.5
Pages: Pp 64
ST#: 1999.67.0112
Date: 2004 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright (Soft Cover) (Published by Lipper / Viking Book)
Author: Huxtable, Ada Louise
Description: Advance Uncorrected Proofs - Not For Sale. On Sale September 13, 2004 $19.95.
Size: 5 x 7.5
Pages: Pp 223
ST#: 2004.15.0305
Date: 2004 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright. (Hard Cover) (Published by Viking Penguin, New York, New York)
Author: Huxtable, Ada Louise
Description: Fascinated by Wright's supreme confidence, fiscal recklessness, con-man charm, and phoenix like resurrections, Huxtable tells the still shocking stories of his abandonment of his first wife and six children; the gruesome murders at Taliesin. But she is no less compelling in her chronicling of Wright's ever-evolving vision of "organic architecture". Original HC List Price $19.95. (First Edition)
Size: 5.5 x 8
Pages: Pp 251
ST#: 2004.18.0405
Date: 2004 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright (Hard Cover Library Binding) (Published by Viking Penguin, New York, New York)
Author: Huxtable, Ada Louise
Description: Fascinated by Wright's supreme confidence, fiscal recklessness, con-man charm, and phoenix like resurrections, Huxtable tells the still shocking stories of his abandonment of his first wife and six children; the gruesome murders at Taliesin, his Wisconsin estate. But Huxtable is no less compelling in her chronicling of Wright's ever-evolving vision of "organic architecture". (First Edition)
Size: 5.5 x 8
Pages: Pp 251
ST#: 2004.43.0215
Date: 2004 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright (Book on tape) (Published by Books on Tape by arrangements with Lipper Publications LLC and Viking Penguin, Santa Ana, CA)
Author: Huxtable, Ada Louise
Description: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic for The New York Times comes an intimate, behind-the-scenes portrait of the world-renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Huxtable looks at the architect and the man, exploring the sources of his tumultuous and troubled life and his long career as a master builder, as well as his search for lasting, true love. Huxtable discusses Wright's masterpieces, including Taliesin, rebuilt after tragedy and murder; the Imperial Hotel, one of the few structures that survived the catastrophic 1923 Japanese earthquake; and the tranquil Fallingwater visited by millions each year. (Publishers description.) Unabridged audio-book. 5 cassettes. Read by Carrington MacDuffie. Packaged in a hard vinyl shell.
Size: 6.6 x 9.25
Pages: 6 Hours, 45 Minutes
ST#: 2004.52.0209
Date: 2005 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright (Hard Cover, Large Print Edition) (Published by Thorndike Press, Waterville, Maine)
Author: Huxtable, Ada Louise
Description: First published in 2004. Fascinated by Wright's supreme confidence, fiscal recklessness, con-man charm, and phoenix like resurrections, Huxtable tells the still shocking stories of his abandonment of his first wife and six children; the gruesome murders at Taliesin. But she is no less compelling in her chronicling of Wright's ever-evolving vision of "organic architecture". (Second Edition)
Size: 5.5 x 8.75
Pages: Pp 333
ST#: 2005.37.0414
Date: 2008 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright, A Life (Soft Cover) (Published by Penguin Group, New York. First published in 2004 by Viking Penguin, New York)
Author: Huxtable, Ada Louise
Description: From the way we build to the way we live. Frank Lloyd Wright's influence on American architecture is visible all around us. Huxtable offers an outstanding look at the architect and the man - his tumultuous and troubled life, his long career as a master builder., and his painful search for love. Along the way she introduces Wright's masterpieces - from the tranquil Fallingwater to Taliesin, rebuilt after tragedy and murder -- not only exploring the mind of the man who drew the blueprints but also delving into the very heart of the medium, which he changed forever. (Publisher's description.) Original list price $14.00. (Second Edition)
Size: 5 x 7
Pages: Pp 251
ST#: 2008.12.0511
Date: 2007 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright in New York. The Plaza Years, 1954-1959 (Hard Cover DJ) (Published by Gibbs Smith, Publisher, Layton, Utah)
Author: Hession, Jane King; Pickrel, Debra; Forward by Mile Wallace
Description: Examines the momentous five-year period when one of the world's greatest architects and one of the world's greatest cities dynamically coexisted. From his suite, or "Taliesin East," as it became known, Wright negotiated-with varying measures of creativity, cooperation, and combat - an astonishing array of exchanges with the city's architects, artists, journalists, editors, publishers, designers, celebrities, power brokers, and bureaucrats. Most significantly, he shepherded the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1943-1959), his New York masterwork, to near completion from these sumptuous quarters. Explore the sophistication and vigor of Wright's final years, a time when he was an architect of legend and a bona fide celebrity, and New York was basking in postwar prosperity. (Publisher's description.) Original cover price $29.95. (First Edition)
Size: 8.9 x 11.25
Pages: Pp 159
ST#: 2007.54.0909
Date: 2013
Title: Chasing Frank Lloyd Wright. His Life and Mine, Intertwined (Soft Cover) (Published by Shipyard Press)
Author: Brown, Conrad, N.
Description: Publisher's description: Part memoir, part architectural history, Chasing Frank Lloyd Wright will interest architecture buffs, local historians, KU alumni, students and anyone who enjoys a lively coming-of-age tale. Set in the 1950s, Chasing Frank Lloyd Wright follows the author from his days as a hot-rodding teenager in an oil rich Oklahoma town to his transformation into a dedicated student of architecture, following the Organic Architecture trail laid down by Mr. Wright. Like most college students the author struggled to balance his extra-curricular activities with his studies, though his distractions included many chance encounters and friendships with celebrities: jazz singer Nellie Lutcher, Afro-Cuban percussionist Candido, band leader Stan Kenton, Regional painter, Thomas Hart Benton, KU basketball star, Wilt Chamberlain to name a few. The author reflects on the life and philosophy of Frank Lloyd Wright, interweaving Wright's development with his own. Dozens of vintage photographs taken at the time and place by the author document many important works by Wright, Bruce Goff and others as they appeared in the 1950s along with scenes of Lawrence, the KU Campus, Bartlesville and Norman Oklahoma, Taliesin Wisconsin and surrounding areas. This memoir tells the back story of how this young architect, who dreamed of following in the footsteps of his idol came to forge his own identity that while indebted to Wright, was uniquely his own. (First Edition)
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: Pp 176
ST#: 2013.30.0420Date: 2014 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright and His Manner of Thought (Soft Cover) (Published by The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin)
Author: Klinkowitz, Jerome
Description: "An iconic figure in American culture, Frank Lloyd Wright is famous throughout the world. Although his achievements in architecture are stunning, it is his importance in cultural history, Jerome Klinkowitz contends, that makes Wright the object of such avid and continuing interest. Designing more than just buildings, Wright offered a concept for living that still influences how people conduct their lives today. Wright's innovations in architecture have been widely studied, but this is the most comprehensive and sustained treatment of his thought. Klinkowitz presents a critical biography driven by the architect's own work and intellectual growth, focusing on the evolution of Wright's thinking and writings from his first public addresses in 1894 to his last essay in 1959..." (Back Cover) Original list price $26.95. (First Edition)
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: Pp 202
ST#: 2014.26.0216
Date: 2015 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright, The Man Who Played With Blocks. A short Illustrated Biography. (Soft Cover) (Published by Royalston Books, Royalston, MA)
Author: Abate, Pia Licciardi; Freudenheim, Leslie M.
Description: With humor and verve this book covers the key aspects of Frank Lloyd Wright's career. Each page offers a new look at his personality and a new way of understanding his most important buildings. Each chapter tells a story which reveals the egotistical, yet charming, man while simultaneously giving the reader the keys to appreciate Wright's most important contributions to architecture. Wright continued to benefit from the blocks that fascinated him as a child while developing the innovative spatial, decorative, and structural solutions that made his architecture unique. Blocks helped Wright see all things in the universe as inter-connected... (Publisher's description.) (Note: We assisted the authors by providing items from our collection that were published in this volume.) Original list price $19.95. (First Edition) To Order.
Size: 8.5 x 11
Pages: Pp 148
ST#: 2015.14.0216
Date: 2017
Title: Frank Lloyd Wright: 21 Surprising Stories (Soft Cover) (Published by Meegan M. Thompson)
Author: Thompson, Meegan M.
Description: "Frank Lloyd Wright was an artist and social reformer. He was also once on an FBI watch list. He was praised by his peers for his tireless work ethic and scorned when he ran off to Europe with an ex-client's wife. His home was its own work of art, housing a fellowship for students of architecture. It was also the site of one of the most brutal mass murders in Wisconsin history. Wright's name generally conjures images of buildings - massive works of art of stone and metal - but he was also a man. As a human being, he had his own faults, his own questionable decisions, and his own secrets. This book contains details about a life that are often overlooked. While the stories are surprising, intriguing, and sometimes scandalous, the ultimate goal is to humanize an iconic figure of America's history. Wright was the father of the organic school of architecture, the creator of the world-famous Guggenheim museum, and he was born naked to a poor Baptist minister in the American Midwest... (Publisher's description.) (First Edition)
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: Pp 57
ST#: 2017.07.0717Date: 2018
Title: Frank Lloyd Wright: The Life and Legacy of America's Most Famous Architect (Soft Cover) (Published by Charles River Editors, San Bernardino, CA)
Author: Charles River Editors
Description: "Perhaps America's most innovative and prolific architect, the works of Frank Lloyd Wright are almost too vast and diverse to list. Recognized for designing unique churches and distinctive commercial buildings, and admired for his geometric style house designs, Wright has been widely imitated, and his work continues to influence architecture not only in the United States but around the world. Laymen often think they know the definition of "a Frank Lloyd Wright", but they probably don't fully understand the brilliant mind of the man, nor the intricacies of his Prairie Style. Yet it endures because he has made it so." (Publisher's description.) (First Edition)
Size: 8.5 x 11
Pages: Pp 90
ST#: 2018.17.0719Date: 2019
Title: Plagued By Fire. The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright (Uncorrected Proof) (Soft Cover) (Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York)
Author: Hendrickson, Paul
Description: "Frank Lloyd Wright has long been known as a rank egotist who held in contempt almost everything aside from his own genius. Harder to detect, but no less real, is a Wright who fully understood, and suffered from, the choices he made. This is the Wright whom Paul Hendrickson reveals in this masterful biography: the Wright who was haunted by his father, about whom he told the greatest lie of his life. And this, we see, is the Wright of many other neglected aspects of his story: his close, and perhaps romantic, relationship with friend and early mentor Cecil Corwin; the eerie, unmistakable role of fires in his life; the connection between the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 and the murder of his mistress, her two children, and four others at his beloved Wisconsin home by a black servant gone mad. In showing us Wright's facades along with their cracks, Hendrickson helps us form a fresh, deep, and more human understanding of the man. With prodigious research, unique vision, and his ability to make sense of a life in ways at once unexpected, poetic, and undeniably brilliant, he has given us the defining book on Wright." Back cover. Suggested hard cover list price $35.00. (First Edition)
Size: 6 x 9.25
Pages: Pp 596
ST#: 2019.06.0719Date: 2019
Title: Plagued By Fire. The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright (Hard Cover DJ) (Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York)
Author: Hendrickson, Paul
Description: "Frank Lloyd Wright has long been known as a rank egotist who held in contempt almost everything aside from his own genius. Harder to detect, but no less real, is a Wright who fully understood, and suffered from, the choices he made. This is the Wright whom Paul Hendrickson reveals in this masterful biography: the Wright who was haunted by his father, about whom he told the greatest lie of his life. And this, we see, is the Wright of many other neglected aspects of his story: his close, and perhaps romantic, relationship with friend and early mentor Cecil Corwin; the eerie, unmistakable role of fires in his life; the connection between the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 and the murder of his mistress, her two children, and four others at his beloved Wisconsin home by a black servant gone mad. In showing us Wright's facades along with their cracks, Hendrickson helps us form a fresh, deep, and more human understanding of the man. With prodigious research, unique vision, and his ability to make sense of a life in ways at once unexpected, poetic, and undeniably brilliant, he has given us the defining book on Wright." Back cover. Original hard cover list price $35.00.
Size: 6.5 x 9.5
Pages: Pp 600
ST#: 2019.54.0622Date: 2019
Title: Plagued By Fire. The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright (Soft Cover) (Published by Vintage Books, A Division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York)
Author: Hendrickson, Paul
Description: Back Cover. "Frank Lloyd Wright has long been known as a rank egotist who held in contempt almost everything aside from his own genius. Harder to detect, but no less real, is a Wright who fully understood, and suffered from, the choices he made.
This is the Wright whom Paul Hendrickson reveals in this masterful biography: the Wright who was haunted by his father, about whom he told the greatest lie of his life. And this, we see, is the Wright of many other neglected aspects of his story: his close, and perhaps romantic, relationship with friend and early mentor Cecil Corwin; the eerie, unmistakable role of fires in his life; the connection between the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 and the murder of his mistress, her two children, and four others at his beloved Wisconsin home by a black servant gone mad. In showing us Wright's facades along with their cracks, Hendrickson helps us form a fresh, deep, and more human understanding of the man. With prodigious research, unique vision, and his ability to make sense of a life in ways at once unexpected, poetic, and undeniably brilliant, he has given us the defining book on Wright." Original list price $18.00.
Size: 5 x 8
Pages: Pp 600
ST#: 2019.58.1222Date: 2021
Title: Insufficient Funds. The Financial Life of Frank Lloyd Wright (Hard Cover DJ) (Published by Dorrance Publishing Co., Pittsburgh, PA)
Author: Alexander, Peter C.
Description: Dust Jacket: "Dozens of books have been written about architect Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture, aesthetic, and various design achievements; however, no one has looked at his business practices" until now. In this book, Peter Alexander focuses on the financial life of this American architectural genius after more than fifteen years of research.
Wright was a spendthrift who earned a considerable fortune over his lifetime, but he was a man who never had sufficient funds to meet his expenses. Most often, his lack of financial stability was because he had an insatiable need to spend money on Japanese art, pianos, cars, and other assorted luxury items.
The material in the book comes from a wide variety of sources, including conversations and anecdotes that have been included in the many published works about Mr. Wright's life and legacy as well as verifiable and apocryphal stories shared by docents conducting house tours. The book is also informed by considerable original material, including archival records about Mr. Wright's financial life and interviews of two of his grandchildren, his Spring Green, Wisconsin neighbors, former apprentices, students enrolled in the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, and homeowners who worked with Wright to build their dream homes." Gift from Kathryn Smith. Original list price $34.95. (First Edition)
Size: 6.75 x 9.75
Pages: Pp 244
ST#: 2021.28.0222Date: 2022
Title: Frank Lloyd Wright. The Architecture of Defiance (Hard Cover) (Published in corporation with The Royal Society of Architects in Wales, University of Wales Press)
Author: Adams, Jonathan
Description: Back Cover: The story of Frank Lloyd Wrights life is no less astounding than his greatest architectural works. He enmeshed himself eagerly in myth and hearsay, and revelled in the extravagance of his creative persona. Throughout his long career, Wright strongly resisted the suggestion that his accomplishments owed anything to earthly influences. As much as he wanted his achievements to be recognised, he wanted them to be unaccountable but they are not. This book reveals for the first time how his unbreakable self-belief and startling creative defiance both originated in the liberal religious and philosophical attitudes woven into his personality during his childhood deliberately so by his mother and by his many aunts and uncles, to honour the fierce Welsh radicalism of their ancestors. Gift from the author. Original list price 25.00 ($30.00).
Size: 9.75 x 9
Pages: Pp 340
ST#: 2022.18.0523Date: 2024
Title: Frank Lloyd Wrighjt. La Biografia (Frank Lloyd Wright. The Biography) (Soft Cover) (Published by United Library)
Author: United Library
Description: Published in Spanish. Los lectores de Frank Lloyd Wright estn invitados a explorar la extraordinaria vida y el legado perdurable de uno de los arquitectos ms influyentes de la historia...
Google translation: Readers of Frank Lloyd Wright are invited to explore the extraordinary life and enduring legacy of one of the most influential architects in history. Frank Lloyd Wright, born June 8, 1867, was not only an architect; he was a visionary, a pioneer and a master of his craft.
This meticulously researched biography takes you on a journey through Wright's 70-year career, during which he designed more than 1,000 structures that would shape the course of modern architecture. From his early influences in rural Wisconsin to his apprenticeship with architectural giants like Louis Sullivan, Wright's path to greatness is precisely charted. Wright's philosophy of "organic architecture," which emphasized harmony with humanity and the environment, is at the heart of this book. Readers will discover how this philosophy came to life in iconic structures like Fallingwater, hailed as "the greatest work of American architecture of all time.."
Size: 5 x 8
Pages: Pp 74
ST#: 2024.01.0424
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