The Journals of Ayn Rand in Bloomington, MN

Rarely has a writer and thinker of the stature of
Ayn Rand
afforded us access to her most intimate thoughts and feelings. From
Journals of Ayn Rand
, we gain an invaluable new understanding and appreciation of the woman, the artist, and the philosopher, and of the enduring legacy she has left us.Rand comes vibrantly to life as an untried screenwriter in Hollywood, creating stories that reflect her youthful vision of the world. We see her painful memories of communist Russia and her struggles to convey them in
We the Living
. Most fascinating is the intricate, step-by-step process through which she created the plots and characters of her two masterworks,
The Fountainhead
and
Atlas Shrugged
, and the years of painstaking research that imbued the novels with their powerful authenticity. Complete with reflections on her legendary screenplay concerning the making of the atomic bomb and tantalizing descriptions of projects cut short by her death,
illuminates the mind and heart of an extraordinary woman as no biography or memoir ever could. On these vivid pages,
lives.