Ayn Rand

Biography	Quotations	Links

Home Authors Subjects Resources Contact About		(This is a test effort. The text is copyrighted, I took it from Biography.com. This will not be the final version of the text I use.) Writer, philosopher; born Alissa (or Alisa or Alice) Rosenbaum, in St. Petersburg, Russia. As an adolescent she saw the negative side of the Bolshevik Revolution. After graduating from the University of Petrograd (1924), she went to the United States, which she regarded as the "country of the individual", becoming a citizen in 1931. Starting as a screenwriter and dramatist, she first won fame for her novel, The Fountainhead (1943) - also made into a film. Atlas Shrugged (1957), a novel in form, incorporated her philosophy of "objectivism," which stresses objective reality, reason, self-interest, and laissez-faire capitalism. She advanced her ideas ia a series of books including The Virtue of Selfishness (1957) and through an institute run by a follower, Nathaniel Brandon. Outspoken and assertive to the end, she named Leonard Peikoff her "intellectual heir."
Ayn Rand's Quotations
Due to the large number of Ayn Rand's quotes in this collection, they are listed according to the book in which they appear.
We, The Living Anthem The Fountainhead Atlas Shrugged Philosophy: Who Needs It? The Virtue of Selfishness The Romantic Manifesto Letters of Ayn Rand Other
Ayn Rand Links
The Ayn Rand Institute The Ayn Rand Society Yahoo's Ayn Rand Page Britannica Online's Article The Objectivism Webring

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