Ayn Rand and the World She Made

by Heller, Anne

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New York: Doubleday/Nan A. Talese, 2009. Advanced Reading Copy. Velobound. Good. xvi, 540, [2] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Partial Bibliography. Anne C. Heller is a magazine editor and journalist and the author of Hannah Arendt: A Life in Dark Times and Ayn Rand and the World She Made. She is a former managing editor of The Antioch Review, fiction editor of Esquire and Redbook, and executive editor of the magazine development group at Cond Nast Publications. She has been a visiting professor of literature at Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the New York University Biographers Seminar and of Biographers International Organization. Ayn Rand (born Alisa Zinov yevna Rosenbaum, February 2, 1905 - March 6, 1982) was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her two best-selling novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism. Educated in Russia, she moved to the United States in 1926. She had a play produced on Broadway in 1935-1936. After two early novels that were initially unsuccessful in America, she achieved fame with her 1943 novel, The Fountainhead. In 1957, Rand published her best-known work, the novel Atlas Shrugged. Afterward, she turned to non-fiction to promote her philosophy, publishing her own magazines and releasing several collections of essays until her death in 1982. Rand advocated reason as the only m

• Publisher: Doubleday/Nan A. Talese
• Year: 2009
• Edition: Advanced Reading Copy
• Binding: unknown

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