A portrait of the man, the social visionary, the genius - from his non-conformist Welsh ancestors, through his fight against all that was bourgeois in America, to the architectural monuments he left behind (the "Prairie" house, the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, the Falling Water House, the Guggenheim Museum). Secrest brings Wright to life as a man of boundless energy with an indomitable appetite for life, whose unlimited belief in his own rightness carried him through bankruptcy, arrest, fire, divorce, hostility and years of social ostracism. The author also wrote "Salvador Dali", "Being Bernard Berenson", "Kenneth Clark" and "Romaine Brooks".