Ayn Rand

Prometheus Award Hall of Fame inductee in 1987

Ayn writing in her office

Ayn Rand born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum was a Russian-American writer and philosopher. She is known for her two best-selling novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and for developing a philosophical system she named Objectivism. Educated in Russia, she moved to the United States in 1926. She had a play produced on Broadway in 1935 and 1936. After two early novels that were initially unsuccessful, she achieved fame with her 1943 novel, The Fountainhead. In 1957, Rand published her best-known work, the novel Atlas Shrugged. Afterward, she turned to non-fiction to promote her philosophy, publishing her own periodicals and releasing several collections of essays until her death in 1982.

Body Of Work

  • 1934 Night Of January 16th
  • 1936 We The Living
  • 1938 Anthem
  • 1943 The Fountainhead
  • 1957 Atlas Shrugged
  • 1961 For The New Intellectual
  • 1964 The Virtue Of Selfishness
  • 1966 Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
  • 1969 The Romantic Manifesto
  • 1971 The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution
  • 1979 Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology
  • 1982 Philosophy: Who Needs It
  • 2015 Ideal

"Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision"

~ Ayn Rand

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