Format is approximately 7.75 inches by 10.5 inches. DJ has slight wear and

Format is approximately 7.75 inches by 10.5 inches. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Minor corner bumping. 60 illustrations, 33 in full color. Signed and dated with sentiment on half-title page. This is one of the First Impressions series. The chapters are: Master of the Know-How, I Was Born An Architect, The Young Man in Architecture, A Natural House, In Exile, and A Promise Kept. There is a List of Illustrations and an Index. Susan Goldman Rubin grew up in the Bronx and dreamed of becoming an artist. She illustrated her first three books but then turned to writing nonfiction, mainly about art and history, and is the author of more than 55 books. Her titles include Frank Lloyd Wright, Diego Rivera: An Artist For The People, They Call Me A Hero: A Memoir of My Youth, Music Was It! Young Leonard Bernstein, Everyone Paints! The Art and Lives of the Wyeth Family, and Freedom Summer: The 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi. She has been an instructor in the UCLA Extension Writers' Program for more than 20 years. This work is about the life and work of one of America's most innovative architects, Frank Lloyd Wright, and this biography is filled with photographs of his dramatic designs. "The mission of an architect is to help people understand how to make life more beautiful, the world a better one for living in, and to give reason, rhyme, and meaning to life."-FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, 1957 Ask the average citizen to name a famous American architect and you can bet that their answer will be Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright gained such cultural primacy for good reason: he changed the way we build and live. Designing 1, 114 architectural works of all types-532 of which were realized-he created some of the most innovative spaces in the United States. With a career that spanned seven decades before his death in 1959, Wright's visionary work cemented his place as the American Institute of Architects' "greatest American architect of all time.".