Well, not quite. But Conan creator Robert E. Howard’s 1933 story “Talons in the Dark” (also titled “Black Talons”) does feature a character named John Galt. (It’s not a particularly good story, but there ya go.)
"Austro" as in Rothbard and Wittgenstein, "Athenian" as in Aristotle and smashing-the-plutocracy.
About Roderick T. Long
The Empirical Me
I’m Roderick T. Long, Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University. I’m an Aristotelean/Wittgensteinian in philosophy and a left-libertarian market anarchist in social theory. (More about me here.) This blog, Austro-Athenian Empire, is a continuation of my earlier blog, archived here.
Oh! Oh! Oh! This just proves that Rand had plagiarized not only Garet Garret, but Robert E. Howard, too!