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Jane King Hession
Jane King Hession is an architectural historian with a special interest in 20th-century architecture and design. She earned her M.Arch from the University of Minnesota. In her writing, she strives to understand architecture within the contexts of the lives and times of its creators. Her work as a writer and archivist has been supported by grants from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Getty Research Institute Library, the Beverly Willis Architectural Foundation, the Minnesota Architectural Foundation, and the Minnesota Historical Society. Hession’s book, John H. Howe, Architect: From Taliesin Apprentice to Master of Organic Design was a Minnesota Book Award finalist in 2016, as was Elizabeth Scheu Close: A Life in Modern Architecture in 2021.
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Elizabeth Scheu Close: A Life in Modern Architecture (University of Minnesota Press, 2020)
John H. Howe, Architect: From Taliesin Apprentice to Master of Organic Design, with Tim Quigley (University of Minnesota Press, 2015)
The Frank Lloyd Wright House in Ebsworth Park: The Kraus House (Pomegranate Communications, 2015)
Frank Lloyd Wright in New York: The Plaza Years, 1954-1959 (Gibbs Smith, 2007)
Ralph Rapson: Sixty Years of Modern Design (Afton Historical Society Press, 1999)
