Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand (1905–1982) wrote the bestselling novelsThe Fountainhead(1943) andAtlas Shrugged(1957) and founded the philosophy known as objectivism. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Rand taught herself to read at the age of six and soon resolved to become a professional writer. In 1926, she left Communist Russia to pursue a screenwriting career in Hollywood, and she published her first novel ten years later. With her next book, the dystopian novellaAnthem(1938), she introduced the theme that she...
