Isabel Paterson

Isabel Paterson (birth name: Isabel Mary Bowler, born 22 January 1886 in Manitoulin, Ontario, Canada, † January 10, 1961 in Montclair, New Jersey) was a Canadian- American journalist, literary critic and writer, by mainly her book The God of the Machine has been announced.

Life

Isabel Paterson, who was a forerunner of anarcho capitalism, made ​​her literary debut in 1913 with Magpie 's Nest, which in the same year the novel The Shadow Riders followed.

Between 1924 and 1949 she worked as a journalist and literary critic for the daily newspaper The New York Herald Tribune, wrote next to continue novels such as:

  • The Singing Season: A Romance of Old Spain (1925 )
  • The Fourth Queen ( 1926)
  • The Road of the Gods (1930 )
  • Never Ask the End ( 1933)
  • The Golden Vanity (1934 )
  • If It Prove Fair Weather (1940 )

The greatest notoriety achieved Paterson, the 1928 U.S. citizenship acquired, but with the non-fiction book The God of the Machine (1943 ), which is regarded as a significant work of philosophy of libertarianism and individualism. About this book wrote the best-selling author and philosopher Ayn Rand:

Background literature

  • Stephen D. Cox: The Woman and the Dynamo: Isabel Paterson and the Idea of America, Transaction Publishers, 2004.

External links and sources

  • Literature by and about Isabel Paterson in the catalog that German national library
  • Isabel Paterson in the Notable Names Database (English)
  • Author
  • Journalist (United States)
  • Literary critic
  • Literature ( 20th century)
  • Literature ( English )
  • Novel, epic
  • Non-fiction
  • Canadian
  • Americans
  • Born in 1886
  • Died in 1961
  • Woman
Manitoulin Island Montclair (New Jersey) Das Kapital Communism Bible Integrated Authority File
418597
de