A Brief Biography of Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand: About Her Life requires a frames-capable browser.<P> <B>Ayn Rand</B> was born in St. Petersburg, Russia on February 2, 1905. At age six, she taught herself to read and two years later discovered her first fictional hero in a French magazine for children, thus capturing the heroic vision which sustained her throughout her life. At the age of nine, Ayn Rand decided to make fiction-writing her career. Thoroughly opposed to the mysticism and collectivism of Russian culture, Ayn Rand thought of herself as a European writer, especially after encountering authors such as Walter Scott and  in 1918  Victor Hugo, the writer she most admired....<P> Go to the <A HREF="http://www.aynrand.org">Ayn Rand Institute</A> home.