Alice O'Connor, better known by her pen name Ayn Rand, was a Russian-American writer and philosopher. She is known for her fiction and for developing a philosophical system which she named Objectivism
Rand in 1943
Rand's first published work was a monograph in Russian about actress Pola Negri.
Rand's play Night of January 16th opened on Broadway in 1935.
The Fountainhead was Rand's first bestseller.
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.