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Ayn Rand

1905 - 1982

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Alice O'Connor (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum; February 2 [O.S. January 20], 1905 – March 6, 1982), better known by her pen name Ayn Rand ( ), was a Russian-born American writer and philosopher. She is known for her fiction and for developing a philosophical system which she named Objectivism. Born and educated in Russia, she moved to the United States in 1926. After two early novels that were initially unsuccessful and two Broadway plays, Rand achieved fame with her 1943 novel The Fountainhead. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ayn Rand is the 63rd most popular writer (down from 62nd in 2019), the 21st most popular biography from Russia and the 5th most popular Russian Writer.

Ayn rand is most famous for her novels, which explore themes of individualism, rational self-interest, and laissez-faire capitalism.

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Among writers, Ayn Rand ranks 63 out of 7,302. Before her are Octave Mirbeau, Astrid Lindgren, Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, Henrik Ibsen, and Stendhal. After her are Aeschylus, Bertolt Brecht, Selma Lagerlöf, Rabindranath Tagore, Jorge Luis Borges, and Stefan Zweig.

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Among people born in 1905, Ayn Rand ranks 2. Before her is Jean-Paul Sartre. After her are Howard Hughes, Simo Häyhä, Nevill Francis Mott, Albert Speer, Dag Hammarskjöld, Viktor Frankl, Elias Canetti, Christian Dior, Henry Fonda, and Greta Garbo. Among people deceased in 1982, Ayn Rand ranks 4. Before her are Huang Xianfan, Grace Kelly, and Leonid Brezhnev. After her are Romy Schneider, Ingrid Bergman, Philip Noel-Baker, Henry Fonda, Carl Orff, Anna Freud, Roman Jakobson, and Arthur Rubinstein.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Ayn Rand ranks 21 out of 3,761. Before her are Nikita Khrushchev (1894), Grigori Rasputin (1869), Ivan the Terrible (1530), Boris Yeltsin (1931), Alexander Pushkin (1799), and Wassily Kandinsky (1866). After her are Ivan Pavlov (1849), Maxim Gorky (1868), Lev Yashin (1929), Yuri Andropov (1914), Mikhail Bakunin (1814), and Alexander II of Russia (1818).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Ayn Rand ranks 5. Before her are Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821), Leo Tolstoy (1828), Anton Chekhov (1860), and Alexander Pushkin (1799). After her are Maxim Gorky (1868), Isaac Asimov (1920), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918), Boris Pasternak (1890), E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776), Vladimir Nabokov (1899), and Ivan Turgenev (1818).

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