Today, February 2nd marks the birthday of the late novelist and philosopher of Ayn Rand. Classic novels written by Ayn Rand are ‘The Fountainhead’ and ‘Atlas Shrugged’. Ayn Rand born in Russia in 1905 came to America at the age of twenty-one. She published her first novel in 1936 titled, ‘We The Living’. Published in 1943, ‘The Fountainhead’ brought Ayn Rand international fame and recognition. The publication of Atlas Shrugged in 1957 established Ayn Rand’s position and philosophy on Objectivism. It was her philosophic principles which make such individuals possible to formulate “a philosophy for living on earth.”

Chris Wolski wrote a piece in 2000 for Capitalism Magazine.

Ayn Rand began writing The Fountainhead in 1935. In the character of the architect Howard Roark, she presented for the first time the kind of hero whose depiction was the chief goal of her writing: the ideal man, man as “he could be and ought to be.” The Fountainhead was rejected by twelve publishers but finally accepted by Bobbs-Merrill. When published in 1943, it made history by becoming a best seller through word-of-mouth two years later, and gained for its author lasting recognition as the champion of individualism.

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Published in 1957, Atlas Shrugged was her greatest achievement and last work of fiction. In this novel, she dramatized her unique philosophy in an intellectual mystery story that integrated ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, politics, economics, and sex. Although she considered herself primarily a fiction writer, she realized that in order to create heroic fictional characters, she had to identify the philosophic principles which make such individuals possible. She needed to formulate “a philosophy for living on earth.”

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