My House: Writer Susan Orlean’s Modernist Masterpiece in L.A.

Writer Susan Orlean and her husband, investor John Gillespie, were so struck by the work of Austrian-born architect Rudolph W. Schindler that when they happened upon his Los Angeles Roth house, they bought it— even though they lived in New York. They’d come to Los Angeles for a temporary stay so Susan could research her book Rin Tin Tin, a precursor to this season’s best-selling The Library Book.