Paterson, Isabel
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1886-1961) Canadian journalist, literary critic and author, in the US from around 1915, whose The God of the Machine (1943) originated many of the tenets of libertarianism (see Libertarian SF) whose intellectual interactions with Ayn Rand from the 1930s on were mutually influential. Of her fiction, The Road of the Gods (1930) is a Lost Race novel set in Germany 2,000 years ago. [JC]
Isabel Mary Bowler Paterson
born Manitoulin Island, Ontario: 22 January 1886
died Burlington, New Jersey: 10 January 1961
works
- The Road of the Gods (New York: Horace Liveright, 1930) [hb/]
nonfiction
- The God of the Machine (New York: G P Putnam's Sons, 1943) [nonfiction: hb/]
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