About Wright: An Album of Recollections by Those Who Knew Frank Lloyd Wright

by Tom Wolfe (Foreword), Edgar Tafel

A fascinating account of the interpersonal relationships between Frank Lloyd Wright and the people involved in various aspects of his life. Features letters and narratives from relatives, friends, clients, draftsmen, apprentices and acquaintances. The latter part of the book deals with events following his death. Includes numerous photographs never before published.

Genres: Architecture, Biography, History

326 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

Wolfe was educated at Washington and Lee Universities and also at Yale, where he received a PhD in American studies.

Tom Wolfe spent his early days as a Washington Post beat reporter, where his free-association, onomatopoetic style would later become the trademark of New Journalism. In books such as The Electric Koolaid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, and The Bonfire of the Vanities, Wolfe delves into the inner workings of the mind, writing about the unconscious decisions people make in their lives. His attention to eccentricities of human behavior and language and to questions of social status are considered unparalleled in the American literary canon.


He is one of the founders of the New Journalism movement of the 1960s and 1970s.

Tom Wolfe is also famous for coining and defining the term fiction-absolute .

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