The Fountainhead

1943 first edition, publisher Bobbs-Merrill Company. "I offer my profound gratitude to the great profession of architecture and it's heroes who have given us some of the highest expression of man's a genius, yet have remained unknown, undiscovered by the majority of men. And to the architects who gave me their generous assistance in the technical matters of this book. No person or event in this story is intended as a reference to any real person or event. The titles of the newspaper columns were invented and used by me in the first draft of this novel five years ago. They were not taken from and have no reference to any actual newspaper columns for features. March 10, 1953 Ayn Rand"