A portrait of the Carmelite convent saint traces her privileged childhood, entry into a convent at the age of fifteen, embrace of self-renunciation, and death at the age of twenty-four.

Pulitzer Prize-winning and renowned architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable's biography of America's greatest architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, looks at the architect and the man, from his tumultuous personal life to his long career as a master builder. Along the way she introduces Wright's masterpieces--from the tranquil Fallingwater to Taliesin, rebuilt after tragedy and murder--not only exploring the mind of the man who drew the blueprints but also...