Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd W

A Deeper and More Dramatic Look at the Already Dramatic Life of Frank Lloyd Wright

By Jeannette Cooperman

In the end, Paul Hendrickson’s quest does succeed—just not in the way he leads us to expect. Throughout the book, he refers to “the back of” Wright’s life, as though it is an edifice. But it is the edifices Wright designed that reveal his humanity. We hear it when he articulates his vision; we hear it in Hendrickson’s descriptions of the structures.