Critical biography of Frank Lloyd Wright by Brendan Gill. "Gill was a friend of Wright and of his formidable third wife, Oglivanna, and has had the advantage of knowing several other members of the family over three generations. The text in enriched by a large number of hitherto unpublished letters and by three hundred photographs and drawings. Thorough research in combination with the author's lifelong study of what he has called 'the robust and necessary irrationality of architecture' makes Many Masks that rare things, a truly definitive biography. Rarer still is the way that the living Wright in all his creativity, crankiness, and zest leaps from these pages." -- from interior flap. Includes list of illustrations, organized by chapter, and an index. Printed in black-and-white.