Ayn Rand

 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 (/aInAyn Rand/) was Russian-born American writer and philosopher. Her fiction is well-known, as well as her creation of the philosophical system she called Objectivism. Her birthplace was in Russia and raised there. In 1926, she emigrated to the United States. Her novel of 1943, The Fountainhead, was her first success. She also wrote two Broadway plays and a novel that failed. In 1957, Rand published her best-known work which was the novel Atlas Shrugged. Rand published her best-known work, Atlas Shrugged, in the year 1957. She continued to publish non-fiction up until her death in 1982. She believed in moral and ethical egoism, and opposed altruism. In her political views, she condemned the use of force as morally wrong and opposed collectivism, statism, and anarchism. She supported laissez-faire capitalism instead and defined it to be a system that recognizes the rights of individuals and private property rights. Rand was opposed to libertarianism that she believed was anarchism. However, she's often associated the movement known as the United States' modern libertarian movement. [6] In the art world, Rand promoted romantic realism. With the exception of Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle and classical liberals, she was adamantly critiqued of all philosophers and philosophical traditions.