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A Short Biography of Ayn Rand

Author Name:

Ayn Rand

Born As:

Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum

Other Names:

Born:

20 Jan 1905

Died:

6 Mar 1982




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Writer, Atheist and Philosopher                          
Selected Works:

Novels:

We the Living - 1936
The Fountainhead - 1943
Atlas Shrugged - 1957

Other Fiction:

Night of January 16th - 1934
Anthem - 1938

Non-fiction:

For the New Intellectual - 1961
The Virtue of Selfishness - 1964
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal - 1966
The Romantic Manifesto - 1969
The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution - 1971
Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology - 1979
Philosophy: Who Needs It - 1982

Journals of Ayn Rand - Edited by David Harriman, published in 1997, 15 years after her death,  with the approval of Rand's estate - http://www.amazon.com/Journals-Ayn-Rand/dp/0452278872

Letters of Ayn Rand - Edited by Michael Berliner, published in 1995, thirteen yers after her death - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0452274044
                                              
Mother Anna Borisovna Rosenbaum
Father  Zinovy Zacharovich Rosenbaum, three daughters.
Spouse Frank O'Connor, married April 15, 1929 – November 7, 1979; his death.                                              
Developed a philosophical system she called Objectivism.                                              
Ayn Rand valued reason above any other human attribute, and became Atheist at High School. Ayn Rand could read French, German and Russian.

John Galt is a character in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged 1957. He is not identified by name until the last third of the novel, he is the object of its often-repeated question "Who is John Galt?" and of the quest to discover the answer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Galt