Wright also did a sketch of a house for Rand, that she quite liked and they discussed having built [1]. Here is what Rand said in 1937 prior to The Fountainhea

Wright also did a sketch of a house for Rand, that she quite liked and they discussed having built [1]. Here is what Rand said in 1937 prior to The Fountainhead being published in a correspondance with Wright about her book (from an LA Times piece in 2009, linked [2] below): > In 1937 a little-known author named Ayn Rand wrote to revered modernist Frank Lloyd Wright. “Dear Mr. Wright,” her letter of Dec. 12 began, “I am writing a novel about the career of an architect. ... I should like to have the privilege of meeting you and discussing it with you.” > In “The Fountainhead,” modern architecture provided a convenient vehicle for her views. In her 1937 letter, she told Wright that her new novel “is to be the story of an architect who follows his own convictions throughout his life, no matter what society thinks of it or does to him. . . . A man who has an ideal and goes through hell for it. So you can understand why it seems to me that of all men on earth you are the one I must see.” > But she added: “My hero is not you. I do not intend to follow in the novel the events of your life and career. His life will not be yours, nor his work, perhaps not even his artistic ideals. But his spirit is yours -- I think.” [1] https://i.imgur.com/TgjvOjf.jpg https://i.imgur.com/TgjvOjf.jpg [2] https://archive.is/9s5iW https://archive.is/9s5iW