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Ayn Rand1905-1982
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Early Life
• Born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1905
• Father was a pharmacy owner
• By age 9, wanted to be a fiction writer
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• As a young girl, witnessed 1917 Bolshevik Revolution (which she opposed)
• Family moved to the Crimea to avoid the war (Ukraine)
• Communists seized father’s business; near starvation for the family
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Education• Attended University of
Petrograd
• Studied philosophy & history
• Did not study literature because she did not want to focus on writers who bored her and that she despised
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Emigration
• 1926 -- left USSR for America
• No intention of returning
• Moved to Hollywood to become a screenwriter
• 1929 -- married actor Frank O’Connor
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Writings
• Considered herself a European writer
• Red Pawn - 1932 first screenplay
• Night of January 16th - Broadway play
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• We the Living - first novel
–completed in 1933; finally published in 1936
–Based on her years under Soviet rule
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• The Fountainhead - began in 1935; published in 1943–Rejected 12 times
–Protagonist is Howard Roark, Rand’s “ideal man”
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• Atlas Shrugged - began in 1935; published in 1957
–An “intellectual mystery”
–Most famous work
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• Anthem - finished in 1937; published in England in 1938, America in 1946
–Novelette about the danger of collectivism
–Focuses on a society where the individual has no value
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Philosophy• Realized that she needed to
identify the philosophic principles that created a “hero” to write well
• Needed to “formulate a ‘philosophy for living on earth’”
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• Philosophy is called “Objectivism”
• Focuses on the importance of the individual
• The Fountainhead shows this ideal hero
• Mike Wallace Interview
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Morality of Man
• Morality rooted in Survival and man survives through Reason
• Morality is really man’s achievement of his own habits
• Man should only be influenced by SELF ONLY…not the church, government, or society’s institutions (marriage)
• Man doesn’t have to sacrifice himself to others to be moral or have self esteem
• Self esteem determined by himself
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In Her Own Words
• What is Love?
• What is Education?
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Final Notes
• Every book Rand published is still in print
• Hundreds of thousands of copies are still sold each year
• So far, more than 20 million copies have sold
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