Ayn Rand's FOUNTANHEAD Howard Roark Is Allegedly Based Upon Frank Lloyd Wright
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Ayn Rand's FOUNTANHEAD Howard Roark Is Allegedly Based Upon Frank Lloyd Wright         

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Author: Robert Cohen
Date: Aug 21, 2008 19:41

Tonight on PBS I watched a fascinating biography of Frank Lloyd
Wright, with ole pictures & film reels, timely music, and cool,
colorful narration

It is another masterful Ken Burns creation & including neatly narrated
by the actor Edward Herman

I presume one could also watch it via puter at

www.pbs.org

This "genius" lived a long, sometimes very controversial life, and the
biography I skimmed in Wikipedia is okay though blah to Ken Burns'
version

"The architect hero Howard Roark of Ayn Rand's novel The Fountainhead
is widely considered to have been based on Wright.[32]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_lloyd_wright

He wrote 20 books, many articles, and is considered as the "greatest
American architect" by an architect professional group, tho Fullerites
may think domeferly/differently

And he's partly descended from Welsh named "Jones," born in Wisconsin
in the mid 19th century, died 1959
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