Wednesday, May 11, 2011

I Finished the Book

I finally finished my biography book report on Frank Lloyd Wright today!  It was a long book, and it's good I finished it because it is due tomorrow!  The book was amazing, and to learn about the most famous architect in the 20th century is awesome!  His life was a constant roller coaster, which also contained debt, tragedies, and a hard childhood.  Here is the last part of the book,

                        "Frank Lloyd Wright's most brilliant creation and most colorful
                 creation was Frank Lloyd Wright.  He was not entirely truthful,
                          not always pleasant, seldom easy, but he was an orginial chararcter. 
                    The old fox was a dandy, wit, loudmouth, trickster, and the greatest
                      con man we've ever had.  He was also a desciplined engineer
                             and a heavyweight creator whose heroic career went on for
                         seventy-three productive years.  He was what he was. 
                                                  If we don't like it, we can lump it."

- Up Close: Frank Lloyd Wright by Jan Adkins, pg. 287

Frank Lloyd Wright died on April 9, 1959.  He died near Taliesin West from an intestinal obstruction and passed unexpectadly.  In the spring, before Wright's death, his first wife Catherine "Kitty" Wright died quietly right before her eighty-eighth birthday. 

I will be showing more parts of this book even after my report.  There still is a bunch to talk about on Frank Lloyd Wright!

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