The Passion of Ayn Rand Paperback by Barbara Branden

Product Details

• Publisher: Anchor (1987-08-18)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 480 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780385243889
• Item Weight: 512.57 grams
• Dimensions: 23.37 x 14.83 x 3.2 cm

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.

About the Author

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 of The Objectivist and the executive vice president of the Nathaniel Branden Institute in New York.