Rand and her placid, silent husband Frank O’Connor, who met the then-named Nathan Blumenthal and his future wife Barbara when they were UCLA students in California, followed the younger couple ...

When she was young, author Ayn Rand had a schoolgirl crush on a man who murdered, dismembered and disemboweled 12-year-old Marion Parker, before dumping her body on the street, after promising to ...

View of Russian-born American writer Ayn Rand (1905-1982) on the set of "The Today Show" in New York City, March 23, 1961. Behind her is a quote from her 1961 book, "For the New Intellectual." ...

During the interview, I said to him: “Ayn Rand has been a great influence on you, but there’s dark and light in her.” He replied: “I am by no means an objectivist; I am a Catholic, you know.

Rand's first biographer (and for many years a close friend and associate of hers) Barbara Branden (see her excellent The Passion of Ayn Rand [1986]) told me something interesting about those who ...

New American Library announced Thursday it will publish the first Ayn Rand novel to appear since Atlas Shrugged in 1957. Ideal will come out in hardcover and trade paperback in July 2015.

Opinion Ayn Rand's appeal By Onkar Ghate , Fox News Published August 21, 2012 4:20pm EDT | Updated May 7, 2015 12:45am EDT Facebook Flipboard ...

Paul Ryan’s interest in the novelist Ayn Rand may put him at odds with the Christian right and the Roman Catholic Church, says Gary Weiss ...

Ayn Rand is often caricatured as a defender of the wealthy. But in reality, there are more rich villains in her books than heroes. As Steve Horwitz demonstrates, she exalted producers, not wealthy ...