Ayn Rand | About Her Life

Ayn Rand: About Her Life requires a frames-capable browser.<P> "If a life can have a 'theme song'  and I believe that every worthwhile one has  mine is [best] expressed in one word: Individualism."<P> Ayn Rand was born in Russia in 1905. She came to America at the age of twenty-one and published her first novel, <I>We The Living,</I> in 1936. <I>The Fountainhead</I> was published in 1943 and brought Ayn Rand international fame. With the publication of <I>Atlas Shrugged</I> in 1957, Ayn Rand's position in history  both as novelist and philosopher  was established.<P> This section of the Ayn Rand Institute Web Site is for the purpose of presenting biographical and historical information about Ayn Rand.<p> <A HREF="http://www.aynrand.org">Ayn Rand Institute Homepage</A>