Christine Cipriani has written about architecture and design for the Wall Street Journal, Architect’s Newspaper, Architect, Interior Design, and Architectural Record. She is the coauthor, with Peter McMahon, of Cape Cod Modern. She lives in Boston.

"Christine Cipriani’s sweeping, definitive biography of Ada Louise Huxtable never loses sight of the inescapable art that inspired Huxtable’s life and work: architecture. The legendary New York Times critic, cool and clear-eyed, emerges from these pages much like the buildings she reviewed, championed, and sometimes saved from destruction. ‘There are no limits to elegance,’ the singular Huxtable once observed. With jewel-like precision, Cipriani proves it in this beautifully told story, as stylish and sophisticated as the 20th-century city the critic helped shape. This is biography at its absolute finest!"

Christine Cipriani has written about architecture and design for the Wall Street Journal, Architect’s Newspaper, Architect, Interior Design, and Architectural Record. She is the coauthor, with Peter McMahon, of Cape Cod Modern. She lives in Boston.

"Christine Cipriani’s sweeping, definitive biography of Ada Louise Huxtable never loses sight of the inescapable art that inspired Huxtable’s life and work: architecture. The legendary New York Times critic, cool and clear-eyed, emerges from these pages much like the buildings she reviewed, championed, and sometimes saved from destruction. ‘There are no limits to elegance,’ the singular Huxtable once observed. With jewel-like precision, Cipriani proves it in this beautifully told story, as stylish and sophisticated as the 20th-century city the critic helped shape. This is biography at its absolute finest!"

Christine Cipriani has written about architecture and design for the Wall Street Journal, Architect’s Newspaper, Architect, Interior Design, and Architectural Record. She is the coauthor, with Peter McMahon, of Cape Cod Modern. She lives in Boston.

"Christine Cipriani’s sweeping, definitive biography of Ada Louise Huxtable never loses sight of the inescapable art that inspired Huxtable’s life and work: architecture. The legendary New York Times critic, cool and clear-eyed, emerges from these pages much like the buildings she reviewed, championed, and sometimes saved from destruction. ‘There are no limits to elegance,’ the singular Huxtable once observed. With jewel-like precision, Cipriani proves it in this beautifully told story, as stylish and sophisticated as the 20th-century city the critic helped shape. This is biography at its absolute finest!"