Written by William R. Drennan

The story of the seven murders at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin that shook the foundations of a house and a nation.  The most pivotal and yet least understood event of Frank Lloyd Wright's celebrated life involves the brutal murders in 1914 of seven adults and children dear to the architect and the destruction by fire of his landmark residence, Taliesin, near Spring Green, Wisconsin.  Supplying both a gripping mystery story and an authoritative portrait of the artist in his prime, Drennan wades through the myths surrounding Wright and the massacre, raising questions about the formulation of Wright's architectural ideology and the profound effects that the Taliesin murders exerted on the fabled architect and on his subsequent designs.