Atlas Shrugged
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Atlas Shrugged is a 1957 novel by Ayn Rand. It is her longest novel, the fourth and final one published during her lifetime, and the one she considered her magnum opus in the realm of fiction writing.
First edition
Rand studied operations of the New York Central Railroad as research for the story.
Ouray, Colorado, was the basis for Rand's descriptions of Galt's Gulch.
Ayn Rand in 1943
John Galt
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John Galt is a character in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged. Although 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?
A sign in Chicago with the question "Who is John Galt"
Kristoffer Polaha played Galt in Atlas Shrugged: Part III.