Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand (b. Alice Rosenbaum) was born in 1905 in St. Petersburg, Russia. Escaping from Soviet Union, she came to America as a temporary visitor in 1926 but remained for the rest of her life. Later, she would also defy the cultural and political views of contemporary America in such best-selling novels as THE FOUNTAINHEAD and ATLAS SHRUGGED. Her unique philosophy, Objectivism, challenged the cultural tradition of 2,500 years. She attained a worldwide fame and a readership numbering in the millions.

Ayn Rand was born in 1905 in St. Petersberg, Russia. She escaped to America in 1926 amidst the rise of Soviet Communism.

Ayn Rand here sets forth the moral principles of objectivism, the philosophy that holds man's life–the life proper to a rational being–as the standard of moral values and regards altruism as incompatible with man's nature, with the creative requirements of his survival, and with a free society.