Great Lakes/Great Books discussion group

Great Lakes/Great Books is a monthly discussion group of books that have a focus on the Great Lakes or on water in general. Works of fiction, nonfiction, and more are discussed both in-person and virtually. This month’s selection is Death in a Prairie House: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders by William R. Drennan.

About the Book

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 the architect and the destruction by fire of Taliesin, his landmark residence, near Spring Green, Wisconsin. Unaccountably, the details of that shocking crime have been largely ignored by Wright’s legion of biographers–a historical and cultural gap that is finally addressed in William Drennan’s exhaustively researched book.