Thomas Hines is professor emeritus of history and architecture at UCLA, where since 1968 he has taught cultural, urban, and architectural history. His books include Burnham of Chicago: Architect and Planner (1974), Richard Neutra and the Search for Modern Architecture (1982), William Faulkner and the Tangible Past: The Architecture of Yoknapatawpha (1996), Irving Gill and the Architecture of Reform (2000) and Architecture of the Sun: Los Angeles Modernism, 1900-1970 (2010). For various periodicals, Hines has written on such subjects as Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Gehry, John Cage, Edmund Teske, and Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles.