
On the contrary, Rand conducted an intellectual auction among competing publishers, finally deciding on Random House because its editorial staff had the best understanding of the book.

Publishers knew that her fiction would sell, and consequently they bid for the right to publish her next book.Ītlas Shrugged, although enormously controversial, had no difficulty finding a publisher. With the success of The Fountainhead a decade earlier and its subsequent production as a Hollywood film starring Gary Cooper in 1949, her stature as an author was established. Rand was already a famous, best-selling author by the time she published Atlas Shrugged. With its publication in 1957, the author accomplished everything she wanted to in the realm of fiction the rest of her career as a writer was devoted to nonfiction.


