NY TIMES OBIT FOR NATHANIEL 2014: entitled Nathaniel Branden, a Partner in Love and Business with Ayn Rand, Dies at 84, I think that's a rather brave title.
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As a note Branden was married four times.
Ayn Rand exited him from her will, and she said she would destroy him. She said she would stop the publication of his boo, The Psychology of Self Esteem. In 1968 she let it be known that she had broken with Nathaniel. Barbara, Nathaniel's wife began to think that Ayn's mental health was deteriorating. Rand accused of both Barbara and Nathaniel
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NY TIMES OBIT FOR BARBARA 2013 : entitled Barbara Branden, Biographer of Ayne Rand, Dies at 84.
Excerpt: Ms. Branden and her former husband, Nathaniel Branden, were at the center of Ms. Rand's inner circle during its heyday in the 1950's and '60s. a following that included future scholars and economists, most notably Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, who went on to shape the conservative Republican and libertarian movements.
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NEW YORK TIME OBIT FOR FRANK 1979 : entitled Charles Francis O'Connor, Artist, Husband of Ayn Rand
Excerpt: Every hero was modeled after him," Miss Rand said. "I sometimes took an entire monologue from him and slipped it into my book. When I couldn't think of a title for one of my novels, he did. He told the whole story in two words.: Mr. O'Connor's two word title was "Atlas Shrugged."
NEW YORK TIMES OBIT FOR AYN 1982
Excerpt: Miss Rand was perhaps best known for her novels "The Fountainhead" of 1943, for which she wrote the screenplay when it was turned into a movie with Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal, and "Atlas Shrugged," published in 1957. From the 1960's on, she increasingly devoted herself to expouinding her views more directly, in such books as "The Virtue of Selfishness" (1965) and "Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal." (1966)
She also served as editor of The Objectivist, a monthly journal, from 1962-1971 and wrote The Ayn Rand Letter from 1971-1976. Her philosophy of objectivism holds that only individual ability and effort account for real achievement and that laissez-faire capitalism provides the optimal environment for talent. her view of selfishness as a virtue and altruism as a vice as a reversal of the traditional Judeo-Christian ethic.
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