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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.
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- Nathaniel Branden (divorced)
- Barbara Weidman, May 14, 1929, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
By Paul Vitello. Dec. 25, 2013. 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...
Dec 13, 2013 · Dec. 13, 2013 12 AM PT. 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...
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Barbara Branden. Web site for Barbara Branden, writer, speaker, editor, and author of The Passion of Ayn Rand.
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Dec 12, 2013 · RIP Barbara Branden. 2 Mins. |. December 12, 2013. Author and speaker Barbara Branden died in Los Angeles yesterday at the age of 84. The Atlas Society will be publishing a detailed obituary shortly. Branden was a writer, lecturer, and author of the best-selling biography The Passion of Ayn Rand (Doubleday, 1986) .The book formed the basis for ...
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. Background.
