from storyjunkie

This biography attempts to explain the intriguing character of Ayn Rand, to place her person as separate to her ideas, as much as such a thing is possible. Heller's own feelings or opinions of Rand's ideas and behavior only come through occasionally, but just often enough to remind the reader tha...

from sandglass

This was a really great book about Ayn Rand's life. The only problem is how long it takes to go through her life. It begins literally with her very young childhood and stays there for a long time. It will occasionally connect her earlier life to events in her later life, to demonstrate how her be...

from Juva

A truly American story of a young Russian immigrant who set out to conquor the world and did. Growing up in the repression and deprevation of Soviet Russia, a young Jewish girl dreamed of coming to America where she would finally be free to think and write whatever she wanted. Escaping on a tempo...

from Bellettres

Well-researched, revealing biography of the founder of Objectivism. It made me dig out my copy of Atlas Shrugged to read it again.