01/08/2023
Socialism is evil.
/ Ayn Rand /
"Alice O'Connor, better known by her pen name Ayn Rand, was a Russian Empire-born American writer and philosopher. She is known for her fiction and for developing a philosophical system she named Objectivism. Born and educated in Russia, she moved to the United States in 1926. After two early novels that were initially unsuccessful and two Broadway plays, she achieved fame with her 1943 novel, The Fountainhead. In 1957, Rand published her best-known work, the novel Atlas Shrugged. Afterward, until her death in 1982, she turned to non-fiction to promote her philosophy, publishing her own periodicals and releasing several collections of essays. Rand advocated reason as the only means of acquiring knowledge; she rejected faith and religion. She supported rational and ethical egoism and rejected altruism. In politics, she condemned the initiation of force as immoral and opposed collectivism, statism, and anarchism."
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Native name: Алиса Зиновьевна Розенбаум
Born: Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum, February 02, 1905, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died: March 6, 1982, New York City, New York, U.S.
Resting place: Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, New York, U.S.
Pen name: Ayn Rand
Occupation: Writer
Language: English
Citizenship: Russian Empire (1905–1917), Russian Republic (1917), Russian SFSR (1917–1922), Soviet Union (1922–1931), United States (1931–1982)
Alma mater:Petrograd State University (diploma in history, 1924)
Period:1934–1982
Subject: Philosophy
Notable works: The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, more...
Notable awards: Prometheus Award – Hall of Fame, 1983 Atlas Shrugged, 1987 Anthem
Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.465, Penguin
