Walter Gropius by Fiona Maccarthy

Walter Gropius by Fiona Maccarthy

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Fiona MacCarthy's captivating biography of Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius is a 'masterpiece' (Edmund de Waal)

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Walter Gropius by Fiona Maccarthy

Fiona MacCarthy's captivating biography of Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius is a 'masterpiece' (Edmund de Waal)
A former Guardian critic, Fiona MacCarthy established herself as one of the leading writers of biography in Britain with her widely acclaimed book Eric Gill (1989). Her next book, William Morris (1994) won the Wolfson History Prize.Her biography Byron: Life and Legend (2002) has been described as 'one of the great literary biographies of our time'. She also received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Last Pre-Raphaelite (2011), and was awarded the OBE in 2009. She was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Art. She was married to David Mellor (1930-2009), one of Britain's leading industrial designers. She died in early 2020.
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ISBN 13 9780571295142
ISBN 10 0571295142
Title Walter Gropius
Author Fiona Maccarthy
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Faber & Faber
Year published 2020-02-06
Number of pages 560
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