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A vast, sweeping book. . . . Wright's life emerges with new clarity as a Shakespearean scale drama. --The Wall Street Journal Important, revelatory. . . . Hendrickson employs tremendously rigorous research to interrogate the myths that hang around his larger-than-life subject. --The Washington Post Hendrickson's style is Faulknerian in its sweep, lyricism and detail. --The Seattle Times A whole new way of seeing an American icon. --The National Book Review Hendrickson is one of our great stylists. --The Boston Globe A wonderful addition to our understanding of Wright. --St. Louis Magazine The book's most moving passages come from fresh insights from the architect's archives. . . . Plagued by Fire aims not to examine the work of an architect but rather to render the architect with human character. --Architectural Digest The contradictory Wright who emerges, both hateful and human, is probably the truest portrait of the man we have yet. --Evening Standard Compelling. . . . Hendrickson gives us a sense of how the single-mindedness, drive, and sensibility that informed and enabled Wright's work also affected his life. --Architect Magazine Dazzling. . . . Ingenious. . . . Plagued by Fire has . . . raw emotional power. --The American Scholar Beautifully written. . . . Absolutely riveting. --Literary Hub Attempts to shed new light on the architect. . . . [Hendrickson's] book is not a straight biography. . . . Instead, he looks at the cracks in the facade (the sometimes insufferable Wright persona), reexamining the history, questioning it. --Common Edge As [Hendrickson] travels the arc of Wright's life, his investigation into its deepest mysteries achieves a powerful momentum. . . . Hendrickson's inspired storytelling is worthy of its subject. --Booklist (starred review)

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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. Since 1998 he has been 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 has been the recipient of writing fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lyndhurst Foundation, and the Alicia Patterson Foundation. 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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