Ayn Rand and the World She Made - Anne C. Heller [294]
scores of characters: She created almost two hundred characters in her four novels (Mimi Reisel Gladstein, The Ayn Rand Companion [Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1984], pp. 41-69).
“I am interested in men only”: “To the Readers of The Fountainhead” (LOAR, pp. 669-73).
“An abstract theory”: W1AR, pp. 107-8.
“Do not underestimate”: Letter to Henry Blanke, December 6, 1945 (LOAR, p. 247).
Literary Guild issued its own edition: Letters to Ross Baker of Bobbs-Merrill, December 18, 1943, and December 11, 1945 (LOAR, pp. 107, 249); author correspondence with Becky Cape, archivist for the Literary Guild, August 10, 2006.
without a guarantee: Letter to Walter Hurley, January 23, 1944 (LOAR, p. 121).
the hand-drawn … illustrations: The illustrations were created by a well-known commercial artist named F. O. Godwin.
“The artist has done a wonderful job”: Letter to MS, December 2, 1945 (LOAR, p. 240).
Dominique is a passable replica of Rand: See The Illustrated “Fountainhead” (Irvine, Calif.: ARI, 1998), p. 18.
loved the luminous rationality: AS, p. 54.
assigned her to a silly gangster movie: Project-specific file cards listing scripts AR worked on and start and completion dates (Hal Wallis Collection, Margaret Herrick Library, box 95).
stood for man’s greatness: January 2, 1946 (JOAR, pp. 312–26).
“The responsibility of making [this] picture: JOAR, p. 312.
“If there is such a thing as an average man”: Letter to M. Curtiss, November 30, 1945 (LOAR, p. 237).
who had returned to his teaching post: American Prometheus, p. 351.
endorsed her interpretation of Germany’s failure: TPOAR, p. 193.
and told her, thrillingly: January 19, 1946 (JOAR, p. 342).
found Oppenheimer enormously intelligent: January 15, 1946 (JOAR, p. 329).
model for the character of Dr. Robert Stadler: BBTBI.
borrowed the details of his office: TPOAR, p. 193.
“Man can harness the universe”: January 19, 1946 (JOAR, p. 344).
she had completed her outline: Editor’s note (JOAR, p. 311).
190 on the verge of filming its own movie: According to David Harriman, editor of JOAR, Wallis knew about the MGM project from the beginning (JOAR, p. 311). The MGM film, The Beginning or the End, was released in 1947 and criticized for its muddled history and sentimental subplots.
She was furious: TPOAR, p. 193.
she figured out: “Paramount Studio Tour.”
She wrote a second memo: Letter to Hal Wallis, March 19, 1946 (LOAR, p. 263).
left the studio a week later: Dates courtesy of project-specific file cards and “Multiple Picture Contract with Ayn Rand,” dated July 5, 1944, both from Hal Wallis Collection, Margaret Herrick Library, box 95.
drafted its first chapter: Ayn Rand Papers, LOC, box 6, folder 1.
a prolonged tantrum: Beverly Fields, “Ayn Rand Rants for 1,168 Pages.”
“Whatever pride of person I hold”: AS, pp. 235–36.
“I’ll give you a hint”: AS, p. 188.
“a raw commodity”: A People’s Tragedy, p. 73.
The novel is full of detailed parallels: Author interview with Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal, July 5, 2005.
“This [Galt’s face] was the world”: AS, p. 643.
a railroad map above her desk: Lewis Nichols, “Talk with Ayn Rand,” NYT, October 13, 1957, p. 272.
Rand wrote hundreds of pages: Editor’s note, JOAR, p. 390.
She was setting out, she wrote, to show: January 1, 1945 (JOAR, p. 394).
John Galt, like Howard Roark: BBTBI.
was basing Dagny Taggart: BBTBI.
“hunger for her own kind”: April 14, 1946 (JOAR, p. 417).
based on this view of O’Connor: January 1, 1945 (JOAR, p. 398).
“the sensitive, poetic kind of writer”: April 13, 1946 (JOAR, p. 411).
“she cannot reach her enemies”: April 11, 1946, to April 17, 1946 (JOAR, pp. 410–18).
“I think I represent”: May 4, 1946 (JOAR, p. 480).
had given a dinner party in her
honor: BBTBI.
“I have written such a book”: Leonard Read, foreword to the Caxton Press edition of Anthem, originally published in July 1953 (Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton, 2004), p. 8.
had already issued: John Blundell, “Liberty at Its Nadir: Interview with Leonard Liggio,