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Genre/Form: | Biography Biographies |
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Named Person: | Frank Lloyd Wright; Frank Lloyd Wright; Mamah Bouton Borthwick; Mamah Bouton Borthwick; Frank Lloyd Wright |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
William R Drennan |
ISBN: | 0299222101 9780299222109 9780299222147 0299222144 |
OCLC Number: | 71812731 |
Description: | xii, 218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Prologue: The house across the river -- 1. Prelude to murder: the architect and the feminist -- 2. Scandal in Oak Park -- 3. "A peculiar establishment": life at Taliesin, 1911-1914 -- 4. "A summer day that changed the world": murder at Taliesin -- 5. "I guess you solved the question": the motives, trials, and lonesome death of Julian Carlton -- Epilogue: The legacy of fire. |
Responsibility: | William R. Drennan. |
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Abstract:
Addresses the most pivotal and yet least understood event of Frank Lloyd Wright's celebrated life, which involves the brutal murders in 1914 of seven adults and children dear to the architect and the destruction by fire of Taliesin, his landmark residence, near Spring Green, Wisconsin.
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"Death in a Prairie House is a compelling argument in support of the theory that the Taliesin tragedy profoundly affected not only the future lives of those directly involved (not the least of whom was considered to be the most influential and gifted architect of the time), but likely, the whole course and development of modern architecture." - Craig Jacobsen, Taliesin Preservation, Inc." Read more...
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