WRITER

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 author and philosopher. She is known for her fiction and for developing a philosophical system she named Objectivism. Born and educated in Russia, she moved to the United States in 1926. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ayn Rand has received more than 15,101,976 page views. Her biography is available in 83 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 76 in 2019). Ayn Rand is the 62nd most popular writer (up from 72nd in 2019), the 21st most popular biography from Russia (up from 24th in 2019) 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

Among writers, Ayn Rand ranks 62 out of 7,302. Before her are George Orwell, Astrid Lindgren, Oscar Wilde, Stefan Zweig, Marcel Proust, and Giacomo Casanova. After her are Rabindranath Tagore, Arthur Conan Doyle, Umberto Eco, Heinrich Heine, Romain Rolland, and Bertolt Brecht.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Ayn Rand ranks 2. Before her is Jean-Paul Sartre. After her are Howard Hughes, Simo Häyhä, Albert Speer, Elias Canetti, Viktor Frankl, Greta Garbo, Henry Fonda, Dag Hammarskjöld, Christian Dior, and Carl David Anderson. 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, Henry Fonda, Carl Orff, Roman Jakobson, Arthur Rubinstein, Philip K. Dick, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Ayn Rand ranks 21 out of 3,761. Before her are Alexander Pushkin (1799), Ivan the Terrible (1530), Boris Yeltsin (1931), Kim Jong-il (1941), Wassily Kandinsky (1866), and Ivan Pavlov (1849). After her are Alexander I of Russia (1777), Lev Yashin (1929), Maxim Gorky (1868), Isaac Asimov (1920), Mikhail Bakunin (1814), and Igor Stravinsky (1882).

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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), E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776), Vladimir Nabokov (1899), Boris Pasternak (1890), and Ivan Turgenev (1818).

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