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Article: How Ayn Rand made a name for herself
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 27, 1986
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Author Ayn Rand always loved New York. But it was her family in
Chicago who "literally saved her life," says Rand's biographer,
Barbara Branden, in town to promote The Passion of Ayn Rand.
"If they had not written to her, she would not have gotten out
of Russia in 1926," says Branden, who hunted down Rand's real name -
Alice Rosenbaum - after the author's death.
Branden began her research here by trying to call everyone in
the Chicago phonebook named Portnoy, the name of some of Rand's
relations.