Ayn Rand (; born
Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum; – March 6, 1982), was a
Russian-American novelist, philosopher,
[The following sources identify Rand as a philosopher:]
- Den Uyl, Douglas J. & Rasmussen, Douglas B. "Preface." in . "...this book is devoted to an assessment of Ayn Rand the philosopher. All the contributors to this volume agree that she is a philosopher and not a mere popularizer. Moreover, all agree that many of her insights on philosophy and her own philosophic ideas deserve critical attention by professional philosophers, whatever the final merit of those inquiries and theories. It is appropriate, therefore, that all our contributors are themselves professional philosophers."
- . "Ayn Rand is one of the most widely read philosophers of the twentieth century."
playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her best-selling novels and for developing a philosophical system she called
Objectivism.
Born and educated in Russia, Rand emigrated to the United States in 1926. She worked as a screenwriter in
Hollywood and had a play produced on
Broadway in 1935-1936. She first achieved fame with her novel
The Fountainhead, published in 1943,
which in 1957 was followed by her best-known work, the philosophical novel
Atlas Shrugged.
