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The Architect of Desire: Beauty and Danger in the Stanford White Family by Suzannah Lessard — book cover

The Architect of Desire: Beauty and Danger in the Stanford White Family

by Suzannah Lessard

Whiting Award · 1995 · Winner

Award History

AwardYearStatus
Whiting Award1995Winner

About the Author

Suzannah Terry Lessard (1944–2026) was an American writer of literary nonfiction, great-granddaughter of architect Stanford White, who served as a staff writer for The New Yorker for 20 years and one of the original editors of the Washington Monthly. (2019). cancer.

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