{"id":55,"date":"2008-02-13T06:00:46","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T12:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=55"},"modified":"2008-02-12T16:37:13","modified_gmt":"2008-02-12T22:37:13","slug":"little-known-fact-about-frank-lloyd-wright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/little-known-fact-about-frank-lloyd-wright\/","title":{"rendered":"Little known fact about Frank Lloyd Wright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/death-in-a-prairie-house.JPG?ssl=1\" title=\"Death in a Prairie House\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/death-in-a-prairie-house.JPG?w=1050&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Death in a Prairie House\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>The most pivotal and yet least understood event of Frank Lloyd Wright\u2019s celebrated life involves the brutal murders in 1914 of seven adults and children dear to the architect and the destruction by fire of Taliesin, his landmark residence, near Spring Green, Wisconsin. Unaccountably, the details of that shocking crime have been largely ignored by Wright\u2019s legion of biographers\u2014a historical and cultural gap that is finally addressed in William Drennan\u2019s exhaustively researched <em>Death in a Prairie House: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> Supplying both a gripping mystery story and an authoritative portrait of the artist as a young man, Drennan wades through the myths surrounding Wright and the massacre, casting fresh light on the formulation of Wright\u2019s architectural ideology and the cataclysmic effects that the Taliesin murders exerted on the fabled architect and on his subsequent designs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most pivotal and yet least understood event of Frank Lloyd Wright\u2019s celebrated life involves the brutal murders in 1914 of seven adults and children dear to the architect and the destruction by fire of Taliesin, his landmark residence, near Spring Green, Wisconsin. Unaccountably, the details of that shocking crime<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/little-known-fact-about-frank-lloyd-wright\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[3252,3251],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-staff-picks","tag-books","tag-staff-picks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-T","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}