Often seen as an egotistical genius, Frank Lloyd Wright also fully understood, and suffered from, the choices he made. Paul Hendrickson portrays an ambitious artist haunted by his father, about whom he told the greatest lie of his life. The author also unearths Wright's close, possibly romantic relationship with mentor and friend Cecil Corwin; the recurrent role of fires in his life; and the connection between the 1921 Tulsa massacre and the murders of Wright's mistress, her children, and four others at his Wisconsin home Taliesin.