Ayn Rand, born Alissa Rosenbaum


Ayn Rand, born Alissa Rosenbaum (February 1905 — March 1982) was a Russian-born American writer. She immigrated to the U.S. in 1926 after graduating from the University of Petrograd and worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood.

 She won a cult following with two best-selling novels presenting her belief that all real achievement comes from individual ability and effort, that laissez-faire capitalism is most congenial to the exercise of talent, and that selfishness is a virtue, altruism a vice.

 In The Fountainhead (1943), a superior individual transcends traditionalism and conformism. The allegorical Atlas Shrugged (1957) combines science fiction with her political message. 

She expounded her philosophy, which she called objectivism, in nonfiction works and as editor of two journals and became an icon of libertarianism.

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