Can someone help me with ayn rand's "the fountainhead", like how did her life relate to the novel?

Question

i need information that relates to the writing of the fountainhead and the life of the author

Answer 1

There are those (few) who deal with reality directly, by reason and their own efforts, "first-hand" and many who deal with reality "second-hand", primarily through others (conformity, bullying, impressing, manipulating, etc. etc.).

By the time Ayn Rand started writing The Fountainhead she had plenty of experience, from Bolshevik rule to Hollywood, in maintaining her first-hand vision of man against many baffling forms of second-handness.

The hero of The Fountainhead similarly struggles long and hard, against an unheroic, second-hand world, to bring his vision into reality.