Thomas Hines is emeritus professor of history and architecture at UCLA and author of Burnham of Chicago; Irving Gill and the Architecture of Reform; William Faulkner and the Tangible Past: The Architecture of Yoknapatawpha; Richard Neutra and the Search for Modern Architecture; and (in progress) Modernism and Regionalism: A History of Modernist Los Angeles Architectural Culture. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a former Getty Scholar and has been awarded NEH, Fulbright, and Guggenheim Fellowships