The Fountainhead

The Fountainhead is a 1943 novel by Ayn Rand (ISBN 0452283760). The book was Rand's first major success and its royalties and movie rights made Rand famous and financially secure. The book was rejected by 12 publishers before a young editor at the Bobbs-Merrill Company publishing house wired to the head office, "If this is not the book for you, then I am not the editor for you". The Fountainhead was made into a Hollywood film in 1949, with screenplay by Rand herself.

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1943 - Novel - Ayn Rand - Royalties - Movie - Publisher - Bobbs-Merrill Company - Hollywood - 1949 - Screenplay

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The book's title is a reference to a quote of Rand's: "Man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress."

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