>On reflection, I thought this Randian Fantasy Island sounded a lot
>like Taliesin West in Scottsdale, AZ, the winter home and
>architectural "school" (read: sweatshop) of Frank Lloyd Wright, one of
>the 20th century's greatest egomaniacs and bunko artists. ...
>
> "The architect hero Howard Roark of Ayn
>Rand's Fountainhead is generally thought to be based on Wright,
>although both Rand and Wright denied this."
>
That's what I always heard. If memory serves, Stalin's daught
(Svetlana?) went to live at Taliesin and left disgusted some years
later, saying something like "I had enough of that kind of living in
Russia. No more."
Joanna