I first read the two sentences as a cryptogram, but quickly realized that there were actually two separate ones - and it became easier when I noticed that all the letters in the first sentence were rotated by 3 - yielding Turnabout may be fair play, but a name of a person lies underneath the first word. After some playing with the second sentence, I think "turnabout" refers to the ROT13 encryption scheme, which makes the second sentence That person is an architect, urban planner and author. I thought "urban planner" would probably yield the shortest list, and List of urban planners gave me what I wanted. On this list, Frank Lloyd Wright is a famous architect (creator of the Prairie Style, and his article also states that he wrote books like The Disappearing City. ESkog 18:19, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Close, but no cigar. -- AllyUnion(talk) 07:50, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I deciphered the second part about a week ago, but couldn't work out the first half. ROT3 is more commonly known as the Caesar cipher - Julius Caesar wrote, Nero was an architect and urban planner. So is the answer Caesar? Alphaxτεχ 05:14, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Nope. I'll give a small hint. The name I'm looking as part of the final answer has 9 letters. -- AllyUnion(talk) 10:51, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)