“the only two … which I consider serious”: BBTBI.
“She was very, very close”: Author interview with BB, June 9, 2006.
“That’s the Dominique premise”: JD, p. 64.
Ruth Beebe Hill and her husband: Dr. Borroughs Hill was a cancer research physician at UCLA Medical Center. RBH later wrote and published a prize-winning novel, called Hanta Yo, about the Teton Sioux Indians (New York: Doubleday, 1979).
“Plato? The father of Communism?”: Author interview with RBH, May 25, 2005.
“I saw it”: Author interview with RBH, June 8, 2005.
had become lovers again: TPOAR, p. 249.
not anticipated the emptiness she felt: BBTBI.
“It’s the kids!”: Author interview with RBH, May 26, 2005.
wasn’t aware that he was behaving seductively: JD, p. 105.
“I was so cautious”: JD, p. 62.
“If Ayn had designs on Nathaniel”: Author correspondence with BB, November 8, 2006.
the third and final part of the noveclass="underline" At the time, “Atlantis” was the beginning of part 2; the novel was originally planned in two parts (Ayn Rand Papers, LOC, box 9, folder 1).
expected to see it at sixteen: AS, p. 643.
“He says … I can’t live without you!”: JD, p. 107.
long drive in Frank’s new Cadillac convertible: Author interview with NB, April 3, 2008.
whose surroundings contributed to the topography: In a letter to philosopher JH written in August 1960, AR noted that she had marked Ouray on a map of Colorado as the right place for Galt’s Gulch “long before I saw it.” She added, “It is the most beautifully dramatic spot in the whole state,” although “Galt’s Valley would be somewhat larger” (LOAR, p. 509).
provided a model for the revolutionary new motor: AR’s proofreader, the ex-marine Evan Wright, who was also an electrical engineer, remembered that AR was still looking for a new source of power for Galt’s invention in 1951 and that in discussions they eliminated lightning as too difficult to capture (100 Voices, Evan Wright, p. 142).
Dr. Stadler’s terrifying weapon: “Death Ray for Planes,” NYT, September 22, 1940, p. D7.
“He uncuffed it for dinner”: Author interview with Connie Papurt, September 21, 2004.
On October 24, they took occupancy: Letter to Pincus Berner, October 12, 1951 (LOAR, p. 494).
who were to live at the ranch while they were away: The Hills moved into the Chatsworth house in summer 1952 (100 Voices, RBH, p. 127).
gave their convertible car to Branden: Author interview with NB, April 3, 2008.
aware of having reservations: Author interview with BB, November 2, 2006.
enrolled at NYU: TPOAR, p. 249.
“I wanted it desperately”: Author interview with BB, November 2, 2006.
“The Fountain Pen, by Frank O’Connor”: Author interview with RBH, May 26, 2005.
insisted on paying rent: Undated note from RBH to BB, courtesy of MSC.
In 1962: 100 Voices, RBH, p. 129.
for a price of $175,000: TPOAR, p. 186.
“That property was his business and his world”: Author interview with RBH, June 8, 2005.
“She said it too insistently”: TPOAR, p. 251.
“Francisco, the Lobbyist”: Mary Ann and Charles Sures, Facets of Ayn Rand (Irvine, Calif.: ARI Press, 2001), p. 117.
began to paint—figures, city-scapes: Facets of Ayn Rand, p. 118.
heaped from countertops: Author correspondence with RBH, August 2005.
apart from whatever they may have taken: Ruth Beebe Hill, “Shared Moments with a Famous Author,” The Journal of the San Juan Islands, July 23, 1986, p. 1.
cats sharpened their claws: Facets of Ayn Rand, pp. 40–41.
bill collectors sometimes showed up: Author interview with Roberta Satro, July 20, 2006.
job to pay the bills: TPOAR, p. 252.
natural and charming: Author interview with Iris Bell, March 8, 2004; Facets of Ayn Rand, p. 46.
foyer doubled as the dining room: Mary Ann Sures, “Portrait of an Artist,” Impact, September 1997, p. 1.
see the Empire State Building: Facets of Ayn Rand, pp. 32–33; TPOAR, p. 251.
launched into a spirited discussion of John Galt: JD, pp. 109–10.
“One does not approach a god too closely”: JD, p. 109.
Rand had written back: Author interview with BB, December 16, 2005.
“a pain that … was excruciating”: JD, pp. 110–13.
Barbara remembered Rand’s manner: Note from BB to author, November 7, 2006.
become her “moral mentor”: “The Liberty Interview: Barbara Branden,” Liberty, January 1990, p. 55.
refrain from seeking his mentor’s advice again: Author interview with BB, November 2, 2006.
should have ended their relationship that night: JD, p. 111.
“He was going to help me”: “The Liberty Interview: Barbara Branden,” p. 55. Interview quote was altered slightly for grammatical correctness, at the request of the subject.
“expand our circle”: MYWAR, p. 108.
German and Polish Jew: Justin Martin, Greenspan: The Man Behind the Money (Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus, 2000), p. 3.
“Alan had his own relationship with her”: From taped, unpublished interviews by journalist JW in preparation for a CBC special report on the tenth anniversary of AR’s death, titled Ideas: The Legacy of Ayn Rand (1992).
they dressed with care: Author correspondence with Al Ramrus, March 1, 2007.
“Is Roark idealistic”: MYWAR, p. 60.
“total awe, as though I were on a different planet”: Ideas and Action, videotaped interview with LP by James Valliant, WJM Productions, August 5, 1995.
her deepening interest in Nathaniel Branden: In an author interview with two of NB’s sisters and Jonathan Hirschfeld, a nephew, in Toronto in August 2006, Hirschfeld, who knew the group members well, said, “I think that, for her, the main draw was NB. I suspect that the rest of it happened and she participated and she cared, but she didn’t need [a following].”
“I’ve always seen [the Collective]: BBTBI.
at a pivotal point: Rand was writing part III, chapter 2, “The Utopia of Greed” (Ayn Rand Papers, LOC, box 9, folder 4; begun November 6, 1951).