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Wasn't Frank Lloyd Wright the inspiration for the main characer of Ayn Rands 'The Fountainhead?' She uses him to draw a figure, mocked by regular architects, fighting against the 'fake' style of that day: architects trying to build 'classic' buildings from Greek times with columns and all. In the novel 'man' is what the buildings are about, if I'm correct. I don't know for sure, but I imagine Frank got his share of ridiculement as well.

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From Wp[1]: "The character of Roark was at least partly inspired by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Rand described the inspiration as limited to "some of his architectural ideas [and] the pattern of his career".[19] She denied that Wright had anything to do with the philosophy expressed by Roark or the events of the plot."

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fountainhead#Howard_Roark

Hey thanks! I'd never realised they were from the same time-frame and knew each other. From the same article: "Rand's denials have not stopped other commentators from claiming stronger connections between Wright and Roark.[21][22] Wright himself equivocated about whether he thought Roark was based on him, sometimes implying that he was, at other times denying it.[23] Wright biographer Ada Louise Huxtable described the "yawning gap" between Wright's philosophy and Rand's, and quoted him declaring, "I deny the paternity and refuse to marry the mother."[24]"

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