num_pages: 544
description: Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) is often described as the greatest of American architects. His works—among them Taliesin North, Taliesin West, Fallingwater, the Johnson Wax buildings, the Guggenheim Museum—earned him a good measure of his fame, but his flamboyant personal life earned him the rest. Here Brendan Gill, a personal friend of Wright and his family, gives us not only the fullest, fairest, and most entertaining account of Wright to date, but also strips away the many masks the architect tirelessly constructed to fascinate his admirers and mislead his detractors. Enriched by hitherto unpublished letters and 300 photographs and drawings, this definitive biography makes Wright, in all his creativity, crankiness, and zest, fairly leap from its pages.
language: English
title: Many Masks: A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright
titlecomplete: Many Masks: A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright
characters: Frank Lloyd Wright
genres: Nonfiction, Biography, Architecture, History
ratings_count: 142
awards: awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Ambassador Book Award
category: Biography
publisher: Da Capo Press