Anne c heller biography

2009 biography

Ayn Rand and the World She Made is a 2009 biography of Russian-American philosopher Ayn Rand by Anne C.

Heller.

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Background

Heller was a journalist who first heard of Rand while working as a magazine editor. Writer Suze Orman gave Heller a copy of an excerpt from Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged in which a character explains Rand's views on money.

Heller's interest was piqued by Rand's unusual viewpoint, and she subsequently read extensively from Rand's other writings.^[1]

As research for the book, Heller interviewed a number of Rand's former associates and listened to unreleased recordings of interviews conducted by others.

They included extensive interviews that Barbara Branden conducted with Rand in the 1960s as preparation for Branden's biographical essay in Who Is Ayn Rand? Heller also hired a Russian research team to find archival material related to Rand's early life in Russia.

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