Ayn Rand (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum) was a Russian-American writer and philosopher best known for her novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, as well as for developing the philosophy of Objectivism. She advocated reason, individualism, and laissez-faire capitalism while rejecting religion, altruism, and collectivism. Though her fiction achieved commercial success, it received mixed criti...

Ayn Rand (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum) was a Russian-American writer and philosopher best known for her novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, as well as for developing the philosophy of Objectivism. She advocated reason, individualism, and laissez-faire capitalism while rejecting religion, altruism, and collectivism. Though her fiction achieved commercial success, it received mixed criti...