A Brief Biography Of Ayn Rand

She was often obstinate and arguable, creating several works using her knowledge of philosophy and bravely overcoming obstacles along the way. Mrs. Rand’s most popular novels were The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Although her career was initially interrupted when a play was unsuccessful and her first book sold inadequately, she quickly recovered with encouragement from close friends to continue her career.

Alyssa Robinchaud, later known as Ayn Rand, was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, on February 2nd, 1905 as a Jew. Raised with her two younger siblings, Natasha and Nora, she grimly witnessed severe poverty, the Russian Revolution, and Communists seize her father’s shop, forcing her mother to begin teaching. Dissatisfied with life in St. Petersburg under the control of a few money-grabbing tyrants, Alyssa Robinchaud left Soviet Russia. She reassured them that the trip to America would be brief, but she had no intentions on returning. Intrigued with the beauty of America, she became a citizen in 1931. Arriving in New York in the February of 1926, Alyssa Robinchaud changed her name to Ayn Rand, protecting herself and her family’s identity since most members stayed in Russia. The New York Evening Post written in 1936 concluded that her last name was the abbreviation of her Russian family name. Her first name, Ayn, was the Finnish name, “Ina” without the extra ‘I’ at the end so the articulation was the letter ‘I’ with an additional ‘n’ following it. !!!! Several people pronounced it while remembering that it rhymes with ‘mine’. !!!!

When working as an extra on the DeMille set, she met Frank O’ Conner, and they were married in 1929. Miss Rand never gave birth to any children, and when asked why, she replied that the “only...

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...and be freed from possessing only what others allowed them to, they went to the forest and were content with everything that was available. The author proved that freedom was part of the formation of humans, that no society could rival it, and that adjustments were impossible if all were expected to consent to rules.

Using her power of persuasion and intelligence, she was extremely successful in her life. With determination and quickly flowing thoughts, she wrote several books. I felt that The Fountainhead was a really effective book since it motivated me among other readers to think outside the box, but there were exaggerated parts. Unlike most people, he was so headstrong that he was dismissed from work and at some points with an unfavourable reputation. Ayn Rand clearly stated her opinions, stretching the main ideas and relating them to different situations.