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- NAME: Ayn Rand
- OCCUPATION: Writer
- BIRTH DATE: February 02, 1905
- DEATH DATE: March 06, 1982
- EDUCATION: University of Petrograd
- PLACE OF BIRTH: St. Petersburg, Russia
- PLACE OF DEATH: New York, New York
- Originally: Alissa Rosenbum
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Author Ayn Rand wrote the best-selling books The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and promoted the philosophy of objectivism.
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Russian-born Ayn Rand published her first bestseller, The Fountainhead, in 1943. She followed up with Atlas Shrugged in 1957. Rand's novels and nonfiction work are heavily influenced by and intended to promote her philosophy of objectivism, which holds that individual self-achievement is more important than tradition or altruism, a theory that is closely tied to laissez-faire capitalism.© 2013 A+E Networks. All rights reserved.
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