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First edition (publ. Harvest) Cover design by Paul Rand. The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry is a 1947 collection of essays by Cleanth Brooks.It is considered a seminal text [1] in the New Critical school of literary criticism.
Although Rand was most famous for the corporate logos he created in the 1950s and 1960s, his early work in page design was the initial source of his reputation. In 1936, Rand was given the job of setting the page layout for an Apparel Arts (now GQ ) magazine anniversary issue. [ 6 ] "
Rand used interviews with scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer for the character Robert Stadler. Rand biographer Anne Heller traces some ideas that would go into Atlas Shrugged back to a never-written novel that Rand outlined when she was a student at Petrograd State University. The futuristic story featured an American heiress luring the most ...
Rand also owned a copy of a 1940 novel with characters named Jed and John Peter Galt. There was a 19th-century Scottish novelist of the same name, but Milgram says that any connection to the character is "highly unlikely". Milgram also notes that the name Rand originally picked for her character was Iles Galt. [1]
Since her death, scholars of English and American literature have continued largely to ignore her work, [162] although attention to her literary work has increased since the 1990s. [163] Several academic book series about important authors cover Rand and her works, [ l ] as do popular study guides like CliffsNotes and SparkNotes . [ 165 ]
Having a substantial body of work, widely respected and reviewed in major publications, and perhaps often nominated or a finalist for major awards. A pioneering literary figure, possibly for the style or substance of their entire body of work, or for a single novel that was a notable "first" of some kind in U.S. literary history.
Rand drew inspiration for Night of January 16th from two sources. The first was The Trial of Mary Dugan, a 1927 melodrama about a showgirl prosecuted for killing her wealthy lover, which gave Rand the idea to write a play featuring a trial. Rand wanted her play's ending to depend on the result of the trial, rather than having a fixed final scene.
Paul Rand, graphic designer; Robert Sabuda, illustrator; Bernard Safran, painter and illustrator known for magazine covers; Sam Savitt, illustrator and writer, official artist of U.S. Equestrian Team; Helen Sewell, illustrator and writer; Rob Sheridan, graphic designer; Pamela Colman Smith, illustrator of the Rider–Waite tarot deck