Erika Holzer
My blogs
| Introduction | After college (Cornell) and law school (NYU), I practiced law, wrote articles and reviews, and with my husband wrote two nonfiction books, one about “Hanoi Jane” Fonda in wartime North Vietnam. In the mid-60s when Henry Mark Holzer and I represented Ayn Rand, we found, restored and co-produced an Italian film of her first novel “We the Living.” With her input I wrote with Duncan Scott a subtitled script of what became an internationally acclaimed art film. Ms. Rand was singularly responsible for my career change from lawyer to novelist. To my knowledge I am the only person with the unprecedented experience of learning to write one-on-one from Ayn Rand. For roughly five years Ayn taught me how to master the craft of fiction-writing—principles and insights I applied to my novels “Double Crossing,” a human rights espionage drama, and “Eye for an Eye”, a psychological thriller and morality tale (later a Paramount feature film directed by John Schlesinger, starring Kiefer Sutherland and Sally Field). My most recent book, part memoir, part literary journey, is “Ayn Rand: My Fiction-Writing Teacher, A novelist’s mentor-protégé relationship with the author of Atlas Shrugged.” |
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