The Women

A terrific historical novel about the women in the life of Frank Lloyd Wright, who may have been a brilliant architect but was cruelly selfish as a husband and father, and hence, had a series of wives, none of whom could remain happy for very long given his demands for emotional attention and even physical labor.

Told in reverse chronolgical order, with Frank's relationship with his last (and very much younger) wife first, there is much that is heartbreaking in this book, and I read with ongoing astonishment at the risks Wright took in his own career in taking up with mistresses while still married, at a time when such actions remained highly scandalous. An outstanding read.