Those are the words of Russian-American writer and philosopher Ayn Rand. Born in 1905, she came to the United States in 1926 and found work in Hollywood, where she pursued a career as a screenwriter.

In his Jan. 31 op-ed, “The Ayn Rand Contradiction,” Rainer Zitelmann writes: “Her cultural significance comes not from her powers of rationality but rather her appeals to morals and emotions ...

Freiman, whose first novel, Inappropriation (2018), was longlisted for the Miles Franklin, is curious why this kind of reappraisal hasn't happened for Rand – whose books continue to sell by the ...

The family roots of Ayn Rand’s unyielding vision Alexandra Popoff’s biography follows the author of “Atlas Shrugged” and “The Fountainhead” from her formative years in Russia to ...

Books by Bill O'Reilly, Ayn Rand, Dean Koontz challenged at Park Vista High. Here's why The challenges have been denied three times at various levels, but will be heard by Palm Beach County's ...

To her detractors, Rand’s novels, as Lisa Duggan writes in her 2019 study “ Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed,” glamorize rapacity and violence; they grant happy endings to ...

Ayn Rand, pictured in 1962 New York City, becomes a talisman to a disaffected present-day writer in Lexi Freiman's satirical novel "The Book of Ayn." (Associated Press) ...

Ayn Rand, pictured in 1962 New York City, becomes a talisman to a disaffected present-day writer in Lexi Freiman’s satirical novel “The Book of Ayn.” ...

Lexi Freiman writes novels about people obsessed with what they’re doing wrong. In her latest, ‘The Book of Ayn,’ the protagonist reacts to her own cancellation by getting into Ayn Rand.

When Lexi Freiman sat down to write her second novel, she discovered an irresistible subject in Ayn Rand, the polarizing (albeit influential) Russian-American writer.