Ayn Rand Books in Order

Ayn Rand is a renowned American philosopher and novelist, whose life's work continues to captivate audiences worldwide. Born Alisa Rosenbaum in pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg to a prosperous Jewish family, she fled to the Crimea with her family after the Bolsheviks seized their pharmacy. Returning to Leningrad to attend university, Rand seized the opportunity to join relatives in America in 1926, settling in New York, where she transformed into Ayn Rand. In Hollywood, she honed her language skills, worked as an extra and in the RKO wardrobe department, and penned numerous screenplays and novels through the night. Her debut screenplay sold in 1932, followed by the release of her first novel, <i>We the Living</i>, in 1936. However, it was her iconic novels <i>The Fountainhead</i> (1943) and <i>Atlas Shrugged</i> (1957) that catapulted her to global fame, cementing her philosophy of Objectivism, which advocates for individual freedom and limited government intervention.