The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright: A Talk by Paul Hendrickson

Join us for a book talk about American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. In the masterful biography, Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright, author Paul Hendrickson reveals the choices that drove Wright’s life, and helps readers form a fresh, deep understanding of the man.

About the author
Paul Hendrickson is the author of the New York Times bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, Hemingway’s Boat, and Sons of Mississippi, which won the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award. From 1998 to 2024, he was on the faculty of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Pennsylvania. For two decades before that, he was a staff writer at The Washington Post. Among his other books are Looking for the Light (1992 finalist for the NBCC award) and The Living and the Dead (1996 finalist for the National Book Award). He is the father of two grown sons, both of whom work in media, and he lives with his wife, Cecilia, a retired nurse, in Washington, D.C., and outside Philadelphia.

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