For years, no producer: 100 Voices, Perry Knowlton, p. 315.
They held a press conference: “On His Own, Al Ruddy Readying Ayn Rand’s 1957 Atlas Shrugged,” Variety, May 17, 1972, p. 32.
It was during the Ruddy negotiations: Author interview with Daryn Kent-Duncan, April 25, 2005.
now she decided that she wanted Raquel Welch: 100 Voices, Michael Jaffe, p. 516.
the French actor Alain Delon: 100 Voices, Albert S. Ruddy, p. 510.
“She never had [an actor to play] Galt”: 100 Voices, Susan Ludel, p. 401.
He and Rand had begun working: Author interview with RBH, June 8, 2005.
her own soon-to-be best-selling noveclass="underline" Hanta Yo: An American Saga (New York: Doubleday, 1979) became a 1984 ABC miniseries entitled The Mystic Warrior, adapted by Jeb Rosebrook.
Silliphant told her a harrowing story: Author interview with RBH, June 8, 2005.
One evening in the early 1970s: TPOAR, p. 366.
Those who met him afterward: Author interview with Martha and John Enright, July 6, 2006.
“But he hated California”: TPOAR, p. 384.
“Don’t humor him”: Taped, unpublished interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 25, 1983.
She assigned him papers: TPOAR, p. 365.
At one point she asked: Taped, unpublished interview with MS, conducted by BB, February 20, 1983.
“He never got kindness from her”: Taped, unpublished interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 25, 1983.
He apparently ordered beer: 100 Voices, Eloise Huggins, p. 440.
“If Ayn happened to open the door”: Author interview with Florence Hirschfeld, Jonathan Hirschfeld, and EK, August 25, 2006.
Eloise Huggins later disclosed to a confidante: Taped, unpublished interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 25, 1983.
“she [always] talk[ed] about”: 100 Voices, Eloise Huggins, p. 439.
“I [have] had Frank”: Letter to Gerald Loeb, August 5, 1944 (LOAR, p. 154).
One year, when Frank wasn’t strong enough: Taped, unpublished interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 25, 1983.
In the spring of 1979: Ayn Rand, Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology (New York: New American Library, 1979).
Surprisingly, perhaps, she made an appearance: The Phil Donahue Show, broadcast from Madison Square Garden, May 1979.
She also posed for a Look magazine photograph: “Ayn Rand Returns,” Look, May 14, 1979, pp. 72–73.
“frightened, terribly frightened”: 100 Voices, Susan Ludel, p. 530.
“Don’t eat the food”: Taped, unpublished interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 25, 1983.
she slept beside him on rubber sheets: Taped, unpublished interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 25, 1983.
Frank O’Connor died on November 7, 1979: “Charles Francis O’Connor, Artist, Husband of the Writer Ayn Rand,” NYT, November 12, 1979, p. D11.
Rand asked Evva Pryor: 100 Voices, Evva Pryor, p. 526.
At the service, held in the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapeclass="underline" Taped, unpublished interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 25, 1983.
David Kelley, a student of Leonard’s: David Kelley’s journal notes from November 12, 1979, courtesy of Kelley.
“I won’t have to suffer long”: Binswanger, “Recollections of Ayn Rand.”
“‘Mimi, talk to me about Frank’ “: Taped, unpublished interview with MS, January 20, 1983, courtesy of MSC.
She began to take antidepressant medication: 100 Voices, Harry Binswanger, p. 601.
Alan Greenspan stopped in to see her: Taped, unpublished interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 25, 1983.
A neighborhood rental agent: Author interview with Roberta Satro, July 20, 2006.
He “look[ed] like Cyrus”: “Recollections of Ayn Rand.”
406 Eickhoff tried to disguise her dismay: 100 Voices, Kathryn Eickhoff, p. 276.
So did Ed Snider: Taped, unpublished interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 25, 1983.
Rand gave her consent: “Recollections of Ayn Rand.”
“my reason is that ‘Objectivism’ “: Ayn Rand, The Objectivist Forum, February 1980, p. 1.
“Darling, if the Russians find out”: 100 Voices, Albert Ruddy, p. 50.
Speaking above Donahue’s attempts to mediate: The Phil Donahue Show, April 29, 1980.
“It was not 1981, it was 1950”: TPOAR, p. 399; Harry Binswanger, in an interview published in 100 Voices, says that AR gave him a differing account of the meeting but doesn’t specify the differences.
She made her last public appearance: Author interview with Molly Hays, February 29, 2004.
“Please, gentlemen, don’t photograph me”: Videotape of “The Sanction of the Victims,” November 18, 1981.
“But to win”: “The Sanction of the Victims,” The Objectivist Forum, April 1982, p. 9.
On New Year’s Day 1982: “Recollections of Ayn Rand.”
Mimi Sutton phoned: Taped, unpublished interview with MS, January 20, 1983, courtesy of MSC.
guards were posted: Author interview with David Kelley, January 25, 2005.
“It is not I who will die, it is the world that will end”: TPOAR, p. 403.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
BY AYN RAND
Anthem (England: Cassell, 1938; 50th anniversary edition, New York: Signet, 1995).
The Art of Fiction, Tore Boeckmann, ed. (New York: Plume, 2000).
The Art of Nonfiction, Robert Mayhew, ed. (New York: Plume, 2001).
Atlas Shrugged (New York: Random House, 1957; New York: New American Library, 1957; Plume, 1999).
Ayn Rand Answers, Robert Mayhew, ed. (New York: New American Library, 2005).
Ayn Rand’s Marginalia, Robert Mayhew, ed. (Irvine, Calif.: Second Renaissance Books, 1995).
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (New York: New American Library, 1966; New York: Signet, 1967).
The Early Ayn Rand: A Selection from Her Unpublished Fiction, Leonard Peikoff, ed. (New York: New American Library, 1984; New York: Signet, 1986).
For the New Intellectual (New York: Random House, 1961; New York: Signet, 1963).