- Literary Criticism, Nonfiction, Fiction, authorship, Authorship
In 1958, Ayn Rand, already the world-famous author of such bestselling books as Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, gave a private series of extemporaneous lectures in her own living room on the art of fiction.
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Earnest, cool, spare and grave.
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- cooloverwhelming
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Ayn Rand
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 200
- Publisher
- Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc., Blackstone Audiobooks, Penguin USA, Inc.
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780786190317
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Alice O'Connor (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum;[a] February 2, [O.S. January 20] 1905 – March 6, 1982), better known by her pen name Ayn Rand (/aɪn/), was a Russian-American writer and philosopher. She is known for her fiction and for developing a philosophical system she named Objectivism. Born and educated in Russia, she moved to the United States in 1926. She wrote a play that opened on Broadway in 1935. After two early novels that were initially unsuccessful, she achieved fame with her 1943 novel, The Fountainhead. In 1957, Rand published her best-known work, the novel Atlas Shrugged. Afterward, until her death in 1982, she turned to non-fiction to promote her philosophy, publishing her
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