Jeff Britting (born 1957) is an American

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, and producer. His credits include associate-producing the 1997

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Nominee for Best Documentary '' Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life'' with director Michael Paxton, for which he also wrote the musical score. He is curator of the Ayn Rand Archives at the

Ayn Rand Institute The Ayn Rand Institute: The Center for the Advancement of Objectivism, commonly known as the Ayn Rand Institute (ARI), is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit think tank in Santa Ana, California, that promotes Objectivism, the philosophy developed by Ayn Ran ...

. In 2004, he published an illustrated biography of

Ayn Rand Alice O'Connor (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum; , 1905March 6, 1982), better known by her pen name Ayn Rand (), was a Russian-born American writer and philosopher. She is known for her fiction and for developing a philosophical system which s ...

's life titled ''Ayn Rand''.

External links

New York Times info on Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life

Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life Soundtrack
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NY Sun article, discusses Britting's Rand bio

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