Frank Lloyd Wright - (almost) "Truth against the World"

Frank Lloyd Wright at eighteen, chafing under his mother's wing, unhappy at the University of Madison, leaves to discover his future and fortune in rough, robust and ready Chicago, the new rising metropolis on the shore of Lake Michigan. Using his one connection he lands an architectural job, tracing pencil drawings on paper to linen in ink.
He is fortunate that his uncle, a flamboyant unitarian preacher in the city, is attracting up and comers to his church where Frank L. Wright begins to meet and cultivate future clients for his architectural office. He also meets and woos Catherine (Kitty) Clark Tobin when she is just turning sixteen, but they must wait until she turns eighteen to marry in spite of her parents and his mother's objections. In fact, when they do actually marry, his mother swoons and collapses at the wedding throwing the affair in turmoil, which continued for most of his and her life.

See the next monograph in this series, The Chicago Years on Kindle. Then the third in the series, The Tragedy, Fire and Redemption.