Donald Hoffmann

Donald Hoffmann served as art and architecture critic of The Kansas City Star from 1965 to 1990. Born in Springfield, IL, in 1933, he was raised about two miles from Frank Lloyd Wright's house for Susan Lawrence Dana. He encountered Wright's house for Fred C. Robie when he entered the University of Chicago in 1949. After working for the City News Bureau of Chicago and the Illinois State Register in Springfield, he joined The Star in 1956. In the early 1960s he began independent studies of the architecture of John Wellborn Root and of Frank Lloyd Wright.