Anne Heller: Ayn Rand and the World She Made

a new diamond-and-ruby ring:100 Voices , the Vaught family, pp. 414–21.

On Rand’s return to New York:Taped, unpublished interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 23, 1983.

“Those who suggest we substitute”:“Apollo 11,” p. 717.

She spoke at the invitation of Colonel Herman Ivey:100 Voices , Brigadier General Jack Capps, p. 496.

The speech she gave:Philosophy: Who Needs It (New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1982).

In effect, said Colonel Ivey:100 Voices , Colonel Herman Ivey, p. 493.

Afterward, Rand, accompanied by Frank:Author interview with EK, July 21, 2006.

“Men were standing on other men’s shoulders”:Taped, unpublished interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 23, 1983.

“My impression was”:100 Voices , Brigadier General Jack Capps, pp. 497–98.

For the most part, “it was a dream trip”:Taped, unpublished interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 25, 1983.

couldn’t walk more than a few yards:100 Voices , Colonel Herman Ivey, pp. 488–89.

one lung removed:MS, unpublished, taped interview with FB, Minna Goldberg, and MS, conducted by BB, February 20, 1983.

One day, she pointed:Author interview with JMB and Dr. Allan Blumenthal, March 23, 2004.

“She was finding it difficult to walk”:Peikoff, from taped, unpublished interviews by journalist JW in preparation for a CBC special report on the tenth anniversary of AR’s death, titled “Ideas: The Legacy of AR” (1992).

Yet she refused to take walks:TPOAR , p. 383.

But she was testing their patience:Author interview with JMB and Dr. Allan Blumenthal, March 23, 2004.

A translation of the letter:Author interview with Lilyan Courtois, September 5, 2006.

She had wanted to show:100 Voices , FB, p. 23.

When Nora wrote about her love:Letter to Nora Drobyshev, May 5, 1973 (LOAR , p. 657).

At Kennedy Airport:TPOAR , p. 374.

striking resemblance:Author interview with EK, August 25, 2006.

whispered to Rand:TPOAR , p. 374.

They had expected a “rich, noble lady”:100 Voices , Eleanora Drobysheva, p. 10.

“What good is political freedom to me?”:Author interview with EK, August 25, 2006.

“It was the altruism of our entire family”:100 Voices , Eleanora Drobysheva, p. 9.

“But you are a rich and famous person!”:Author interview with EK, August 25, 2006.

“[My sister] had just artificially

constructed”:100 Voices , Eleanora Drobysheva, p. 4.

“fake” and “lacking in talent”:100 Voices , Eleanora Drobysheva, p. 5.

Nora called Rand:100 Voices , Eleanora Drobysheva, p. 9.

She did contact her lawyer:100 Voices , Evva Pryor of Ernst, Cane, Gitlin & Winick, p. 526.

Nor, as it turned out, did Nora wish to:Probate Proceedings, “Report of Guardian Ad Litem” November 16, 1983, p. 6.

When Nora and Fedor were gone:Author interview with EK, August 25, 2006.

“when I liked everything about [my sister]”:100 Voices , Eleanora Drobysheva, pp. 10–13.

Time noted:“The Chairman’s Favorite Author,” Time , September 30, 1974.

397 during one of their semimonthly dinners:Author interview with JMB and Dr. Allan Blumenthal, October 7, 2007.

he showed Mitchell a copy of an antitrust article:The Age of Turbulence , p. 97; “The Assault on Integrity,” TON , August 1963, pp. 31–32.

She had drawn him from a world of empiricism:The Age of Turbulence , pp. 52–53.

The revival stirred unusual interest:Allen McCauley, “Ayn Rand, a Radical for True Capitalism,” Bergen County Record , February 22, 1973.

“[Penthouse Legend] is the kind of play”:Clive Barnes, “Stage: ‘Penthouse Legend,’ a Courtroom Drama,” NYT , February 23, 1973, p. 20.

It closed after thirty performances:“Closing the Record Book on 1972–1973,” NYT , Arts & Leisure, July 1, 1973, p. 3.

a line, or a few lines:The issue in dispute is whether AR’s anger about the changes in her dialogue was justified, or even reasonable.

“One mistake was all it took”:Taped, unpublished interview with Phillip and Kay Nolte Smith by journalist JW in preparation for a CBC special report on the tenth anniversary of AR’s death, entitled “Ideas: The Legacy of AR” (1992).

“She was relentless in pursuit”:TPOAR , p. 387.

“visual distortions”:“Art and Sense of Life,” The Objectivist , March 1966, p. 38.

“By then, there was something almost reckless”:TPOAR , p. 387.

She talked about “denouncing” them:Taped, unpublished interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 23, 1983.

Her behavior with him shocked and upset the Kalbermans:Author interview with EK, July 21, 2006.

She viewed his rebellion:OHP, Robert Hessen, November 10, 2004.

On the advice of her secretary:Taped, unpublished interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 25, 1983.

“Leonard was destroyed”:Taped, unpublished interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 25, 1983.

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 novel: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.