1867–1959 · American architect, designer, writer & educator
Frank Lloyd Wright (born Frank Lincoln Wright, 8 June 1867 – 9 April 1959) was the American architect behind Fallingwater, the Guggenheim and the Prairie and Usonian houses — and, in his last decades, a national character as much as a designer, dispensing opinions to reporters with total confidence. This particular opinion, though, he was passing on rather than minting: by the time he offered it to the New York Times Magazine in 1958, the saying had been circulating among American physicians for well over half a century. He is the reason it is famous, not the reason it exists.