Ayn Rand and the World She Made - Anne C. Heller [283]
“in its real meaning”: “The first purpose of this book is a defense of egoism in its real meaning” were the first words AR wrote in her notes on TF (December 4, 1935 [JOAR, p. 77]).
“All that which proceeds”: February 22, 1937 (JOAR, p. 105).
either they are “economic man”: Albert Jay Nock, Our Enemy, the State (Tampa, Fla.: Hallberg Publishing Corp., 1983), cited in Raimondo’s Reclaiming the American Right, p. 116. Nock, also the author of Memoirs of a Superfluous Man (Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2002), was an outspoken and articulate opponent of both a government-managed economy and the Left’s faith in the “wisdom of the common man.” AR met Nock in late 1940 or early 1941. See chapter 6, note 51, and chapter 10, note 20.
“The creator’s concern”: TF, p. 712
a nineteenth-century Eastern European Jew: Thanks to JW and his unpublished book, Go Ask Alyssa: The Jewish/Nietzschean Worldview of Ayn Rand, courtesy of author.
“Enjoyment is not my destiny”: TF, p. 664.
Compromise is said to be an insult in Russia: “The Russian Subtext of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead.”
envied him his simple pleasure: JW’s taped, unpublished interviews with Philip and Kay Nolte Smith in preparation for a CBC special report on the tenth anniversary of AR’s death, titled Ideas: The Legacy of Ayn Rand (1992).
wrote and rewrote: TPOAR, p. 147.
“makes John Barrymore look like an office boy”: 100 Voices, Al Ramrus, p. 162.
about a third of the novel in first draft: Ayn Rand Papers, LOC, box 18, folder 11.
couldn’t say with certainty: BBTBI.
contract with the publisher was canceled: The contract was officially nullified in October 1940 (unpublished letter from Blanche H. Knopf to Ann Watkins, October 25, 1940 [A. Watkins Collection, Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, box 80]).
SIX: THE SOUL OF AN INDIVIDUALIST: 1939–1942
“Renunciation”: Introduction to The Romantic Manifesto (New York: World Publishing, 1969).
“My research material”: Quoted in Milgram, “The Road to Roark.”
four and a half years: The first page of the first handwritten draft of TF is dated June 26, 1938 (Ayn Rand Papers, LOC, box 18, folder 1).
“Frank was the fuel”: Introduction to the twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of TF (New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1968), p. viii.
conflated him with her heroes: TPOAR, p. 136.
“He’s on strike”: TPOAR, p. 135.
father died in late December 1938: Dennis O’Connor died on December 21, 1938, State of Ohio death certificate for Dennis O’Connor, Archives of the Lorain, Ohio, City Health Department.
curious to see Lorain, Ohio: TPOAR, p. 152, based on an interview with MS.
the rest of the O’Connor family: AR and FO also traveled to Cleveland during the 1938 trip to Ohio, and that’s where AR first met the Papurt family (author interview with MW, December 16, 2006).
Roman Catholic funeral ceremony: Death notices, Lorain [Ohio] Journal, December 23, 1938, p. 18.
small talk remained something she didn’t do well: Author interview with JMB and Dr. Allan Blumenthal, March 3, 2004.
“drab and homely”: Author interview with MW, June 21, 2004.
During one dinner: This took place in 1947, at the Essex House in New York (author interview with MW, December 16, 2006).
Rand did increase the distance: TPOAR, p. 153; taped interview with MS, conducted by BB, January 20, 1983.
modern red-brick apartment building: At 160 East Eighty-ninth Street.
served a Russian dinner: FB, from a taped interview by BB with FB, Minna Goldberg, and MS in Chicago, February 20, 1983.
“The man cooking”: FB, from a taped interview by BB with FB, Minna Goldberg, and MS in Chicago, February 20, 1983.
twenty young-adult biographies and novels: Author correspondence with FB, February 18, 2006.
“architecture by committee”: Wright, An Autobiography, p. 152.
Mimi, also twenty: Facts about MS thanks to MW, December 11, 2005.
first met: Note from BB, June 21, 2006, based on her interview with MS in the early 1980s.
offered to produce the play: TPOAR,