| The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. |
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| Rand, Ayn |
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( n) (KEY) , 1905–82, American writer, b. St. Petersburg, Russia. She came to the United States in 1926 and worked for many years as a screenwriter. Her novels are romantic and dramatic, and they espouse a philosophy of rational self-interest that opposes the collective of the modern welfare state. Her best-known novels include The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957). In For the New Intellectual (1961) she summarized her philosophy, which she called “objectivism.” | 1 | | See the memoir by N. Branden (1989); biography by B. Branden (1987); study by J. T. Baker (1987); her letters, ed. by M. S. Berliner (1995), and her journals, ed. by D. Harriman (1997). | 2 |
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