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Kristin Gilpatrick, Marketing Manager
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A HOME BEFITTING A TRIUMPHANT, TRAGIC GENIUS
Building Taliesin: Frank Lloyd Wright's Home of Love and Loss (Paperback: $35.00 ISBN: 978-0-87020-606-1) details the creation of Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin, which would be the architect's principal residence to the end of his life. Author Ron McCrea paints a vibrant picture of the building and its central characters through letters, memoirs, contemporary documents, and a stunning assemblage of photographs - many of which have never before been published. Photos taken by Wright's associates show rare views of Taliesin under construction and illustrate Wright's own recollections of the first summer there and the craftsmen who worked on the site. The book also brings to life Wright's kindred spirit, "she for whom Taliesin had first taken form," Mamah Borthwick. Wright and Borthwick had each abandoned their families to be together, causing a scandal that reverberated far beyond Wright's beloved Wisconsin valley. The shocking murder and fire that took place at Taliesin in August 1914 brought this first phase of life at Taliesin to a tragic end.
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About the Author: Ron McCrea is a prize-winning journalist and former Alicia Patterson Fellow who worked on the news desks of "New York Newsday," the "San Jose Mercury News," the "Washington Post," the "Washington Star," the "Boston Globe," and the "Capital Times" in Madison, Wisconsin, where he served for a decade as city editor. He appears in the E! Entertainment Network's documentary "Mysteries and Scandals: Frank Lloyd Wright" and the BBC's "Frank Lloyd Wright: Murder, Myth and Modernism," and wrote the script for "The Making of Monona Terrace: Frank Lloyd Wright's Last Public Building," a finalist at the New York Film Festival. He serves on the board of directors of AIA Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Society of Architects, as a professional affiliate member, and was the communications director for Wisconsin governor Tony Earl. He holds degrees from Albion College and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
Media: For review copies of this book, book photos, or event information, please contact Kristin Gilpatrick, Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 816 State St., Madison, WI 53706; 608-264-6465; email: kristin.gilpatrick@wisconsinhistory.org
For retail and wholesale orders: Contact the Chicago Distribution Center: 11030 South Langley Ave., Chicago, IL 60628-3830. Phone: 800-621-2736 Fax: 800-621-8476 Email: custserv@press.uchicago.edu
For individual orders: Order by phone toll free at 888-999-1669, shop online at shop.wisconsinhistory.org, or shop in person at the Wisconsin Historical Museum Shop, 30 N. Carroll St., Madison WI 53706 Events:Thursday, June 28, 2012, 4 -6 pm, BOOK LAUNCH party and book signing with author Ron McCrea at Harmony Bar, Madison WI Friday, July 27, 2012, Evening (time TBD), author presentation and book signing at Taliesin Preservation, Spring Green WI Tuesday, September 18, 2012, 5 pm, author presentation and book signing at First Unitarian, Madison WI, hosted by the Friends of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries Tuesday, October 16, 2012, 12:15 - 1 pm, author presentation as part of the History Sandwiched In series at the Wisconsin Historical Museum, Madison WI Building Taliesin: Frank Lloyd Wright's Home of Love and Loss By Ron McCrea Paperback: $35.00 ISBN: 978-0-87020-606-1 240 pages, 200 b/w and color photos, 11 x 8.5
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