Ayn Rand and the World She Made - Anne C. Heller [280]
negotiations broke down: “Ayn Rand’s Family and Friends.”
“truly heroic man”: Unpublished letter to Ann Watkins, cited in “The Hero in the Soul Manifested in the World.”
In July 1937: Letter to Gladys Unger, July 6, 1937 (LOAR, p. 41).
told friends, she was soon doing her best work: Letter to Gladys Unger, July 6, 1937 (LOAR, p. 41).
“It will be very good experience for him”: Letter to Gladys Unger, July 6, 1937 (LOAR, p. 41).
walked on the beach with visitors: See photo, AR, p. 65.
“I was going crazy”: BBTBI.
composed the short, futuristic novel: BBTBI.
“We are nothing”: Ayn Rand, Anthem (New York: Signet, 1995), p. 21.
“either condemned or exalted it”: Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal, “The Russian Subtext of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead,” Journal of Ayn Rand Studies, Fall 2004 (vol. 6, no. 1).
conceived Anthem as a four-act play: Leonard Peikoff, introduction to Anthem, p. viii.
during her university years: “An Illustrated Life.”
short story that tracks a primitive future man: Stephen Vincent Benét, “The Place of the Gods,” The Saturday Evening Post, July 31, 1937, p. 10.
start to finish in three weeks: Leonard Peikoff, introduction to Anthem, p. ix; Robert Mayhew, ed., Essays on Ayn Rand’s “Anthem” (Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2005), p. 163.
admirers point out another, related difference: WIAR, p. 113.
couldn’t place Anthem: EOA, p. 24.
“does not understand socialism”: EOA, p. 24.
illustrated magazine version appeared in 1953: In June 1953 Famous Fantastic Mysteries devoted an entire issue to an illustrated Anthem.
three and a half million copies have been sold: EOA, p. 27.
“more precious to me than anything I have ever considered writing”: Unpublished letter to Norman Flowers, January 2, 1938; cited in EOA, p. 27.
fond of Watkins: Unpublished letter to Ann Watkins, circa 1940, cited in “The Hero in the Soul Manifested in the World.”
in the fall of 1937: BBTBI.
this calamity was compounded: Royalty statements, A. Watkins Collection, Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, box 178.
Rand walked away: BBTBI.
taking the copyright to We the Living with her: “Copywright Reassignment for We the Living,” A. Watkins Collection, Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, box 178.
settled on the Upper East Side of Manhattan: AR lived at 173 East Seventy-fourth Street from October 1937 to September 1938, and at 160 East Eighty-ninth Street from October 1938 to September 1940 (Bin-swanger, dinner lecture, April 24, 2005). At that time, New Yorkers traditionally changed apartments on October 1.
throw a party in Town Hall: “The Hero in the Soul Manifested in the World,” based on a newspaper account.
pronounced the FBI director “charming”: Hope Ridings Miller, “Lady Boileau, Here, Finds G-Men Most Interesting,” Washington Post, February 23, 1938, p. X14.
would try, and fail, to see him: AR was denied permission to see J. Edgar Hoover twice, once in October 1947, when she made a trip to Washington, D.C., to serve as a friendly witness before the House Un-American Activities Committee, and once in January 1966; FBI archives, U.S. Department of Justice, FOIA memo to author from U.S. Department of Justice, December 11, 2003.
offer of ten thousand dollars: Contract between AR, A. H. Woods, Ltd., and RKO Radio Pictures, July 13, 1938 (A. Watkins Collection, Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, box 152); see also The Saturday Evening Post, November 11, 1961, p. 100.
intended to cast Claudette Colbert: News clippings about RKO stars and American Film Institute archive notes; thanks to Jenny Romero of the Margaret Herrick Library.
came to think of as “a phony”: BBTBI.
signed a contract with Knopf: Contract with Alfred A. Knopf, June 27, 1938 (A. Watkins Collection, Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, box 152).
FIVE: THE FOUNTAINHEAD: 1936–1941
“I do not recognize anyone’s right to one minute of my life”: TF, p. 685.
how a moral man can live in a corrupt society: BBTBI.
just as Rand remembered Cyrus laughing: