#112 Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright was born two years after the end of the Civil War. And died two years after the launch of Sputnik. Ninety one years and ten months on this earth. In the approximate middle of that near century span, when he was forty seven, The greatest architect America had yet produced suffered a personal catastrophe that would have destroyed a man of lesser will and lesser ego.

Although perhaps That is just saying the same thing twice. A crazed servant named Julian Carlton set fire to Wright's home And went about murdering seven people. one of whom was the woman Wright deeply loved.

and had been living with for the past several years. Even as his own wife kept praying he'd somehow come to his moral senses. And return to his family. Five years before, in the fall of nineteen oh nine, Having already revolutionized American architecture and produced what other artists might have considered a lifetime's worth of work.

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