Ayn Rand and the World She Made - Anne C. Heller [301]
summer of 1950: JD, p. 78.
gave them eighteen completed chapters: Author interview with NB, May 5, 2004; letter to NB, September 1, 1950 (LOAR, p. 479).
who had already heard each new section: Letter to Archibald Ogden, April 23, 1949 (LOAR, p. 437).
“We were hearing”: TPOAR, p. 245.
“I can’t fully communicate the exhilaration”: “Interview with Barbara Branden,” p. 12.
“plot, theme, characterization, style”: TPOAR, p. 242.
selected some of Barbara’s favorite passages: The Art of Fiction, p. 10, from contemporaneous recordings of private lectures. Interestingly, AR is quoted as saying that Thomas Wolfe’s “appeal is usually to people under twenty. Wolfe presents an empty mold to be filled by any reader, the general intention being aspiration, undefined idealism, the desire to escape from the commonplace and to find ‘something better in Life’ “(p. 111). Except for the reference to “an empty mold,” AR could be describing her own appeal.
“into a destructive vise”: TPOAR, p. 243.
She wore short skirts: JD, p. 65; TPOAR, p. 240.
snapped at her about such carelessness: TPOAR, p. 210.
“top value”: The Phil Donahue Show, April 29, 1980.
“Frank is my rock”: TPOAR, p. 248.
“too disgusted with people”: JD, p. 66.
she didn’t divorce Frank: “Interview with Nathaniel Branden,” Karen Reedstrom, Full Context, September 1996, p. 7.
held his hand as they strolled: TPOAR, p. 247.
such as Zorro and the Scarlet Pimpernel: JD, p. 84.
raised by a doting mother and grandmother: Author interview with Florence Hirschfeld, Jonathan Hirschfeld, and EK, August 25, 2006.
Lavery … alleged that Mrs. Rogers had defamed him: “Debate Suits Ask $2,000,000,” Los Angeles Times, September 11, 1947, p. A1, and “Unproduced Play’s Value Question in Lavery Suit,” Los Angeles Times, August 4, 1951, p. B18.
settled for thirty thousand dollars: “Lavery Awarded $30,000,” Los Angeles Times, August 14, 1951, p. 2.
flirted pleasantly with Barbara: Author interview with BB, June 9, 2006.
lasted for only twenty-eight performances: In 1948, The Bees and the Flowers was released as the MGM movie Three Daring Daughters with Jeanette MacDonald.
When a girlfriend committed suicide: TPOAR, p. 193.
affected his rationality: JD, p. 63.
“I think we replaced him”: Author interview with BB, June 9, 2006.
“the only two … which I consider serious”: BBTBI.
“She was very, very close”: Author interview with BB, June 9, 2006.
“That’s the Dominique premise”: JD, p. 64.
Ruth Beebe Hill and her husband: Dr. Borroughs Hill was a cancer research physician at UCLA Medical Center. RBH later wrote and published a prize-winning novel, called Hanta Yo, about the Teton Sioux Indians (New York: Doubleday, 1979).
“Plato? The father of Communism?”: Author interview with RBH, May 25, 2005.
“I saw it”: Author interview with RBH, June 8, 2005.
had become lovers again: TPOAR, p. 249.
not anticipated the emptiness she felt: BBTBI.
“It’s the kids!”: Author interview with RBH, May 26, 2005.
wasn’t aware that he was behaving seductively: JD, p. 105.
“I was so cautious”: JD, p. 62.
“If Ayn had designs on Nathaniel”: Author correspondence with BB, November 8, 2006.
the third and final part of the novel: At the time, “Atlantis” was the beginning of part 2; the novel was originally planned in two parts (Ayn Rand Papers, LOC, box 9, folder 1).
expected to see it at sixteen: AS, p. 643.
“He says … I can’t live without you!”: JD, p. 107.
long drive in Frank’s new Cadillac convertible: Author interview with NB, April 3, 2008.
whose surroundings contributed to the topography: In a letter to philosopher JH written in August 1960, AR noted that she had marked Ouray on a map of Colorado as the right place for Galt’s Gulch “long before I saw it.” She added, “It is the most beautifully dramatic spot in the whole state,” although “Galt’s Valley would be somewhat larger” (LOAR, p. 509).
provided a model for the revolutionary new motor: AR’s proofreader, the ex-marine Evan Wright, who was also an electrical engineer, remembered that AR was still looking for a new source of power for Galt