Ayn Rand
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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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Born | Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum 2 Februar 1905(1905-02-02) St. Petersburg, Roushie Empire |
Dee'd | 6 Mairch 1982(1982-03-06) (aged 77) New York, New York, U.S. |
Restin place | Kensico Seemetry Valhalla, New York, U.S. |
Pen name | Ayn Rand |
Thrift | Writer |
Leid | Inglis |
Ethnicity | Roushie Jewish |
Ceetizenship | 1905–22 Roushie Empire 1922–31 Soviet Union 1931–82 Unitit States |
Alma mater | Petrograd State Varsity (diploma in history, 1924) |
Period | 1934–1982 |
Subject | Filosofie |
Notable warks | The Fountainhead Atlas Shrugged |
Notable awairds | Prometheus Award Haw o Fame inductee in 1987 (for Anthem) an co-inaugural inductee in 1983 (for Atlas Shrugged) |
Spoose | Frank O'Connor (m. 1929; d. 1979) |
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