![]() The Rosenbaum family fled to Crimea, a Russian state. Petersburg, or so she claimed later, and witnessed men being shot in the street. She was against what what was at the time called “women’s lib,” now referred to as second-wave feminism.Īt the start of the Russian Revolution in 1917, the 12-year old Alisa looked out her bedroom window in St. She championed rugged individualism in her novels and nonfiction writings.Īnd though she created strong female characters, their initial sexual encounters with their male counterparts bordered on rape. The Virtue of Selfishness, the title of one of her best-known works of nonfiction, sums up what made Rand tick. ![]() Her philosophy, as she defined it was, “The concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.” Her novels’ leading men were mouthpieces for her objectivist views - especially Howard Roark in The Fountainhead and John Galt in Atlas Shrugged. Later, as a widely read (if not critically acclaimed) author, she became known for ponderous novels like The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, which were based on the philosophical tenets of Objectivism, which she developed. Originally named Alisa Rosenbaum, she was a bookish child who loved stories and started writing her own when still quite young. ![]() Ayn Rand (Febru– March 6, 1982), American author born in St. ![]()
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