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.
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.