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Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand in 1943
BornAlisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum
2 Februar 1905(1905-02-02)
St. Petersburg, Roushie Empire
Dee'd6 Mairch 1982(1982-03-06) (aged 77)
New York, New York, U.S.
Restin placeKensico Seemetry
Valhalla, New York, U.S.
Pen nameAyn Rand
ThriftWriter
LeidInglis
EthnicityRoushie Jewish
Ceetizenship1905–22  Roushie Empire
1922–31  Soviet Union
1931–82  Unitit States
Alma materPetrograd State Varsity (diploma in history, 1924)
Period1934–1982
SubjectFilosofie
Notable warksThe Fountainhead
Atlas Shrugged
Notable awairdsPrometheus Award Haw o Fame inductee in 1987 (for Anthem) an co-inaugural inductee in 1983 (for Atlas Shrugged)
SpooseFrank O'Connor (m. 1929; d. 1979)

SignaturAyn Rand

Ayn Rand (born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum, Roushie: Али́са Зино́вьевна Розенба́ум; February 2 [A.S. January 20] 1905 – Mairch 6, 1982) wis a Roushie-American novelist, filosofer,[1] playwricht, an screenwriter. She is kent for her twa best-sellin novelles, The Fountainhead an Atlas Shrugged, an for developin a filosofical seestem she cried Objectivism. Eddicatit in Roushie, she muived tae the Unitit States in 1926. She haed a play produced on Broadway in 1935–1936. Efter twa early novelles that war initially unsuccessfu in Americae, she achieved fame wi her 1943 novelle, The Fountainhead.

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