The Passion of Ayn Rand
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Passion of Ayn Rand
By (Author) Barbara Branden
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
31st March 1999
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
813.52
Physical Properties
Paperback
480
Width 148mm, Height 234mm, Spine 32mm
513g
Description
This bestselling biography of one of the 20th century's most remarkable and controversial writers is now available in paperback.Author Barbara Branden, who knew Rand for nineteen years, provides a matchless portrait of this fiercely private and complex woman.
Author Bio
Barbara Branden(1929-2013) was a Canadian writer and lecturer on effective thinking, who earned her MA in philosophy from New York University. Under the guidance of Sidney Hook, an American philosopher, Branden authored a thesis on free will. She is well known for her complicated relationship with Russian-American novelist Ayn Rand, which was an influence for her two biographies on Rand, Who Is Ayn Rand and The Passion of Ayn Rand. During her lifetime she was the managing editor ofThe Objectivistand the executive vice president of the Nathaniel Branden Institute in New York.
