Anne Heller: Ayn Rand and the World She Made

“He never got kindness from her”:Taped, unpublished interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 25, 1983.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Eloise Huggins later disclosed to a confidante:Taped, unpublished interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 25, 1983.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One year, when Frank wasn’t strong enough:Taped, unpublished interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 25, 1983.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“Don’t eat the food”:Taped, unpublished interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 25, 1983.

she slept beside him on rubber sheets:Taped, unpublished interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 25, 1983.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At the service, held in the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel:Taped, unpublished interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 25, 1983.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“ ‘Mimi, talk to me about Frank’ “:Taped, unpublished interview with MS, January 20, 1983, courtesy of MSC.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Alan Greenspan stopped in to see her:Taped, unpublished interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 25, 1983.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So did Ed Snider:Taped, unpublished interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 25, 1983.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.

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).

The Fountainhead (New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1943; 25th anniversary edition, New York: New American Library, 1971; New York: Plume, 1994).

The Illustrated Fountainhead (Irvine, Calif.: Ayn Rand Institute, 1998).

Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology (New York: New American Library, 1979; New York: Meridian, 1990).

Journals of Ayn Rand , David Harriman, ed., Dina Garmong, trans. (New York: Dutton, 1997; New York: Plume, 1999).

Letters of Ayn Rand , Michael S. Berliner, ed., Dina Garmong, trans. (New York: Dutton, 1995; New York: Plume, 1999).

Philosophy: Who Needs It (New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1982).

The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution (New York: Signet, 1971).

The Romantic Manifesto (New York: World Publishing Company, 1969; New York: Signet, 1971).

Russian Writings on Hollywood , Michael S. Berliner, ed., Dina Garmong, trans. (Los Angeles: Ayn Rand Institute Press, 1999).

The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought , Leonard Peikoff, ed. (New York: New American Library, 1989; New York: Meridian, 1990).

Three Plays (New York: Signet, 2005).

The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism (New York: Signet, 1963; New York: New American Library, 1964).

We the Living (New York: Macmillan, 1936; New York: Signet, 1995).

The Ayn Rand Letter, 1971–75 , Harry Binswanger, ed. (New York: The Ayn Rand Letter, Inc.; New Milford, Conn.: Second Renaissance Books, 1990).

Barbara Branden and Nathaniel Branden, Who Is Ayn Rand? (New York: Random House, 1962).

Robert Mayhew, ed., Essays on Ayn Rand’s “We the Living” (United Kingdom: Lexington Books, 2004).

____, Essays on Ayn Rand’s “Anthem” (United Kingdom: Lexington Books, 2005).

____, Essays on Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead” (United Kingdom: Lexington Books, 2007).

Scott McConnell, 100 Voices: An Oral History of Ayn Rand (Irvine, Calif.: Ayn Rand Institute Press, to be published).