The Reading Warehouse

Facets of Ayn Rand is based on forty-eight hours of interviews with Mary Ann and Charles Sures, longtime personal friends of Ayn Rand. Their recollections make vividly real the Ayn Rand they knew so well.

Here are many examples of not only Ayn Rand's mind and intellectual generosity in action but also lesser-known aspects of this unique woman. The result is the experience of an actual larger-than-life person.

"The person in this book is the same person I myself knew for so long; reading these pages is almost like having Ayn Rand in the room again." --Leonard Peikoff

Charles Sures received law degrees from George Washington University, served in the navy in World War II, and practiced law for forty-four years.

Mary Ann Sures, an art historian, taught art history at New York University and at Hunter College. She lectures on the application of Objectivist esthetics to the visual arts. Her friendship with Ayn Rand began in 1954. She married Charles Sures in 1965.

Susan O'Malley (a.k.a. Bernadette Dunne) is the winner of numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards and has twice been nominated for the prestigious Audie Award. She studied at the Royal National Theatre in London and the Studio Theater in Washington, DC, and has appeared at the Kennedy Center and off Broadway. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Leonard Peikoff is universally recognized as the preeminent Rand scholar writing today. He worked closely with Ayn Rand for thirty years and was designated by her as heir to her estate. He has taught philosophy at Hunter College, Long Island University, and New York University. Peikoff for many years lectured on Rand's philosophy throughout the country. He lives in Southern California.