> 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