Biography of Ayn Rand
Biography of Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand 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 she decided to make fiction writing her career. Thoroughly opposed to the mysticism and collectivism of Russian culture, she thought of herself as a European writer, especially after encountering Victor Hugo, the writer she most admired.
During her high school years, she was eyewitness to both the Kerensky Revolution, which she supported, and—in 1917—the Bolshevik Revolution, which she denounced from the outset. In order to escape the fighting, her family went to the Crimea, where she finished high school. The final Communist victory brought the confiscation of her father’s pharmacy and periods of near-starvation. When introduced to American history in her last year of high school, she immediately took America as her model of what a nation of free men could be.
When her family returned from the Crimea, she entered the University of Petrograd to study philosophy and history. Graduating in 1924, she experienced the disintegration of free inquiry and the takeover of the university by communist thugs. Amidst the increasingly gray life, her one great pleasure was Western films and plays. Long an admirer of cinema, she entered the State Institute for Cinema Arts in 1924 to study screenwriting.
In late 1925 she obtained permission to leave Soviet Russia for a visit to relatives in the United States. Although she told Soviet authorities that her visit would be short, she was determined never to return to Russia. She arrived in New York City in February 1926. She spent the next six months with her relatives in Chicago, obtained an extension to her visa, and then left for Hollywood to pursue a career as a screenwriter.
On Ayn Rand’s second day in Hollywood, Cecil B. DeMille saw her standing at the gate of his studio, offered her a ride to the set of his movie The King of Kings, and gave her a job, first as an extra, then as a script reader. During the next week at the studio, she met an actor, Frank O’Connor, whom she married in 1929; they were married until his death fifty years later.
After struggling for several years at various nonwriting jobs, including one in the wardrobe department at the RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., she sold her first screenplay, “Red Pawn,” to Universal Pictures in 1932 and saw her first stage play, Night of January 16th, produced in Hollywood and then on Broadway. Her first novel, We the Living, was completed in 1934 but was rejected by numerous publishers, until The Macmillan Company in the United States and Cassells and Company in England published the book in 1936. The most autobiographical of her novels, it was based on her years under Soviet tyranny.
She began writing The Fountainhead in 1935. In the character of the architect Howard Roark, she presented for the first time the kind of hero whose depiction was the chief goal of her writing: the ideal man, man as “he could be and ought to be.” The Fountainhead was rejected by twelve publishers but finally accepted by the Bobbs-Merrill Company. When published in 1943, it made history by becoming a best seller through word of mouth two years later, and gained for its author lasting recognition as a champion of individualism.
Ayn Rand returned to Hollywood in late 1943 to write the screenplay for The Fountainhead, but wartime restrictions delayed production until 1948. Working part time as a screenwriter for Hal Wallis Productions, she began her major novel, Atlas Shrugged, in 1946. In 1951 she moved back to New York City and devoted herself full time to the completion of Atlas Shrugged.
Published in 1957, Atlas Shrugged was her greatest achievement and last work of fiction. In this novel she dramatized her unique philosophy in an intellectual mystery story that integrated ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, politics, economics and sex. Although she considered herself primarily a fiction writer, she realized that in order to create heroic fictional characters, she had to identify the philosophic principles which make such individuals possible.
Thereafter, Ayn Rand wrote and lectured on her philosophy—Objectivism, which she characterized as “a philosophy for living on earth.” She published and edited her own periodicals from 1962 to 1976, her essays providing much of the material for six books on Objectivism and its application to the culture. Ayn Rand died on March 6, 1982, in her New York City apartment.
Every book by Ayn Rand published in her lifetime is still in print, and hundreds of thousands of copies are sold each year, so far totalling more than twenty five million. Several new volumes have been published posthumously. Her vision of man and her philosophy for living on earth have changed the lives of thousands of readers and launched a philosophic movement with a growing impact on American culture.
13 Comments:
When you give a troll a piece of History not to be deciphered as something other than what it's intended for, they have to assume the objectivity was to deface when an Author spells out a "quote" which obviously they do not understand be it for stupidity or simple racism towards others.
What they need to do is Keep their systematic mouths on the porch and read if they're eligible.
If you CAN'T COMPREHEND a "Quote" for what it stands for, why try to make yourself look any more deranged than you already are.
Oh, yea, I forgot it's a black thing. The Head troll is the most Pathetic individual that has graced these blogs since it's inception..... touché azzwipe.....
Too bad he has me blocked.
I have never heard of her until now.
Got the majority of LP blocked Em, except for his humming birds. He hasn't got a clue. dumbass thinks he struck a nerve of mine, another wanna be thought of a Racist black troll.
He hasn't a clue of the "quote" from Ayn Rand means nor will he ever. That boy is all screwed up in the head to even know who this Lady was, let alone have read anything by her. Her Objectives described his type to a "T".
Better he sticks to his scriptures for only he knows how to interpret the readings of his God. His mouth delivers the scriptures of the Serpent, but yet he can condemn the gift that was installed in this lady's writing and Mind. He's a devoted follower of the socialist and the pigs that follow him.
Struck a nerve? Heh,heh,heh, talk s**t Boy, I've never let a man scare me yet especially the likes of him.
@Reddog, if you have a chance Read her books " We the Living ", or the " The Ideal man ", you'll see what a gifted writer this woman was. Her philosophy views describes the depths of people like the head Racist troll. A very talented Lady who was self taught. Fat Albert wouldn't understand the concepts of her teachings of Objectives. But, really do yourself a favor and read those by her, you'll know what she endured and how close to life she perceived..
She was required reading in college. Very bright woman.
Very interesting lady, Thanks Maddog.
Yes Em, a lot of professorsrequired her readings. She was so gifted...!
you're Welcome Sully....
Re: Speedy, of all the blogs here he is the most likely to reply to his own.
Speaks volumes, nothing but a cyber-instigator.
who is John Galt lol
MD,
You can take everything those two trolls say as pure adulterated bs. They both are racist and like my wife's Black nurse once told me, very ignorant. He stated," anyone racist is ignorant. One wants to start a race war and the other one doesn't know his a$$, from a hole-in-the-ground.
@CarBob,
you're absolutely correct in your description of the both of them. To me they're useless as " TITS " on a bull hog, not too much good at anything except being racist organizers. Yep, like you say pure unadulterated BS from the core. Hey, I saw where I was promoted to head Bigot now that they say Rdgrnr is no longer in the picture.
The two of them remind me of two turds floating down stream together, one is trying to out do the other. Hysterical, Their BS poetry only solidify just how overwhelmingly stupid they both are and letting people who read their garbage know just who they are.
Objectivity:) Hog jowls and his little pork chop..
This is specifically written for our head troll........!
You know what the definition of insanity is, right?
Well, you sure fit the bill.
People like you and Obama are the reason the muslims are chopping Christian children in half on video, cutting off heads, and blowing up embassies and personnel, and you are worried about how they are perceived? Maybe they can engender some good will by letting women get an education or a drivers license? Or, maybe I guess you think it is ok to stone a rape victim to death?
Here's a novel idea, go over there and help them improve their reputation. You are an absolute fool to place any trust whatsoever in a religion that touts it is perfectly fine to lie through their teeth to you in order to get what they want. And for some stupid reason you believe them even after they tell you they are going to lie to you? You probably defend islam more than you do Christianity.
Not only do you qualify for the insanity moniker, your are dangerously stupid!
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