Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand is a Russian-American novelist screenwriter, philosopher, and philosopher, was also a prominent conservative/libertarian political activist. She is best recognized for her work on Atlas Shrugged (1957) and The Fountainhead (1943). She was born on 2 February 1905 in Saint Petersburg, Russian, into a wealthy Jewish family. Ayn Rand, her birth name Alissa Zinovievna Rosenbaum. Her most famous work is being a novelist. Also, she is known for the creation of a philosophical system called Objectivism. Rand was born in New York City and died on the 6th of March, 1982. She was a student at Stoiunina Gymnasium, where she began writing at age eight. Though her parents tried to protect their daughters from the political upheaval which was taking place in the midst of that time, Alisa gradually developed her own views and favored the republican system over the monarchy of the constitution. Rand, who was 9 years old, made the decision to pursue a career as an author particularly inspired by the works of Victor Hugo. When the 1917 "February Revolution" began to unfold in Saint Petersburg, Alisa, 12 years old, favored Alexander Kerensky over the Tsar Nicholas II. Their family's life was interrupted when the 'October Revolution" was declared at the end of the year. When the Bolsheviks were in the power, her father's business was taken over and they had leave for the Crimea, where they tried to rebuild their lives.