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Ayn Rand
AuthorBooks · Second hand1905-1982
Alice O'Connor, better known by her pen name Ayn Rand, was a Russian-American writer and philosopher. She is known for her fiction and for developing a philosophical system which she named Objectivism.
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About Ayn Rand
Birth
1905
Death
1982
First book
1926
Years writing
100
Alice O'Connor, better known by her pen name Ayn Rand, was a Russian-American writer and philosopher. She is known for her fiction and for developing a philosophical system which she named Objectivism.
Ayn Rand was born in Saint Petersburg as Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum before emigrating to the United States.
She is the creator of Objectivism, a philosophical system that champions reason as the human being's primary tool.
Her literary breakthrough came in 1943 with the publication of her successful novel The Fountainhead.
Beyond being a novelist, Rand was a prolific playwright who saw her work premiere on Broadway in 1935.
Her most iconic work, Atlas Shrugged, cemented her legacy as one of the most influential voices of the 20th century.
