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Barbara Joan Branden (née Weidman; May 14, 1929 – December 11, 2013) was a Canadian-American writer, editor, and lecturer, known for her relationship and subsequent break with novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand. [1] [2] [3] [4] Life. Born in Winnipeg, Barbara Weidman met Nathaniel Branden because of their mutual interest in Ayn Rand 's works.
Barbara Branden, who helped popularize Ayn Rand’s philosophy of self-interest in the 1960s but caused a schism among Ms. Rand’s followers with an unauthorized biography she wrote after the...
Web site for Barbara Branden, writer, speaker, editor, and author of The Passion of Ayn Rand.
Dec 14, 2013 · Barbara Branden, who wrote a definitive biography of philosopher and novelist Ayn Rand after a close association that ended in a disastrous tangle of relationships, died Wednesday in a...
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WELCOME to Barbara Branden's web site! This site provides biographical information about Barbara (including some photos of interest) as well as information about her landmark biography The Passion of Ayn Rand and Showtime's movie adaptation of the book.
BARBARA BRANDEN is a writer and lecturer. She earned her M.A. in philosophy, and authored a thesis on free will, under the direction of Sidney Hook at New York University. She was Ayn Rand's intimate friend and colleague for eighteen years, and a close friend of the members of the "Rand Circle."
The Passion of Ayn Rand is a biography of Ayn Rand by writer and lecturer Barbara Branden, a former friend and business associate. Published by Doubleday in 1986, it was the first full-length biography of Rand and the basis for the 1999 film of the same name starring Helen Mirren as Rand.
