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    Alice O'Connor (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum; [ c ] February 2 [ O.S. January 20], 1905 – March 6, 1982), better known by her pen name Ayn Rand (/ aɪn / EYEN), was a Russian-born American author and philosopher. [ 3 ] She is known for her fiction and for developing a philosophical system she named Objectivism.

  2. For a woman qua woman, the essence of femininity is hero-worship—the desire to look up to man. “To look up” does not mean dependence, obedience or anything implying inferiority.

  3. Feb 2, 2024 · Ayn Rand wrote Anthem during the summer of 1937. It was first published in England in 1938, by Cassell and Company (who had published the British edition of We the Living a year earlier). Anthem would not have an American publisher until 1946, after the publication of The Fountainhead.

  4. Jun 8, 2010 · Ayn Rand (1905–1982) was a novelist-philosopher who outlined a comprehensive philosophy, including an epistemology and a theory of art, in her novels and essays. Early in her career she also wrote short stories, plays, and screenplays. Rand’s first and most autobiographical novel, We the Living (1936), set in the Soviet Union, was published ...

  5. Oct 30, 2009 · Her mother, a homely but self- consciously stylish woman named Khana Berkovna Kaplan, known as Anna, had been trained as a dentist but had stopped practicing after her marriage and pregnancy.

  6. Apr 2, 2014 · Rand was working on a television adaptation of Atlas Shrugged when she died of heart failure at her home in New York City on March 6, 1982.

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  8. Major explorations of her life and theories liken her to a “Goddess of the Market,” cite her as a “Russian Radical,” and define her following as “The Ayn Rand Cult.” Such religious allusions likely wouldn’t have sat well with Rand, who described religion as a lapse of rational reasoning.

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