WRIGHT, FRANK LLOYD

born June 8, 1867, Richland Center, Wis., U.S. died April 9, 1959, Phoenix, Ariz. original name Frank Lincoln Wright architect and writer, the most abundantly creative genius of American architecture. His Prairie style became the basis of 20th-century residential design in the United States. Additional reading A reliable biography is Robert C. Twombly, Frank Lloyd Wright: His Life and His Architecture (1979). Robert L. Sweeney, Frank Lloyd Wright: An Annotated Bibliography (1978), contains more than 2,000 books, periodical articles, reviews, catalogs, and other items by and about Wright and covers the years 18861977. A classic study of Wright's work is Henry-Russell Hitchcock, In the Nature of Materials, 18871941: The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright (1942, reprinted 1975). Other valuable works include Grant Carpenter Manson, Frank Lloyd Wright to 1910: The First Golden Age (1958, reissued 1979); Vincent Scully, Frank Lloyd Wright (1960); Arthur Drexler, The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright (1962); Olgivanna Lloyd Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright: His Life, His Work, His Words (1966), containing a full but occasionally inaccurate listing of Wright's buildings after 1941; and Thomas A. Heinz, Frank Lloyd Wright (1982).