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Based on hundreds of previously not published interviews, Scott McConnell creates a unique portrait of Ain Rand, the author of the bestsellers “We are alive”, “Gymn”, “Source”, “Atlant straightened his shoulders”. Having concentrated attention primarily on the private life of this large -scale personality, McConnell talked with members of her family, friends, admirers, colleagues, as well as with Hollywood stars, university professors, writers. The interviews built in chronological order cover a wide range of years, contexts, connections and observations, in the center of which one of the most influential and contradictory figures of the twentieth century. From the younger sister Ain Rand and the woman who served as the prototype of Peter Kitting, one of the main characters of the novel “Source”, to secretaries and dentist - people who knew her offer a fresh, at times amazingly frank view of a difficult and wonderful writer, philosopher and man.