Mishka Lawrence

Anthem by Ayn Rand

I am often asked whether I am primarily a novelist or a philosopher. The answer is: both. In a certain sense, every novelist is a philosopher, because

one cannot present a picture of human existence without a philosophical framework. . . . In order to define, explain and present my concept of man, I

had to become a philosopher in the specific meaning of the term.

— Ayn Rand, “Preface,”For the New Intellectual

• Ayn Rand was a Russian-born American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is

known for her two best-selling novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and for

developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism.

• Born: February 2, 1905, Saint Petersburg, Russia• Died: March 6, 1982, New York City, NY• Spouse: Frank O'Connor (m. 1929–1979)• Notable works: The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged

Ayn Rand’s Fiction – Novel

• We the Living (1936)

• Anthem (1938)

• The Fountainhead (1943)

• Atlas Shrugged (1957)

Ayn Rand’s Non Fiction

• For the New Intellectual (1961)• The Virtue of Selfishness (1964)• Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966)• The Romantic Manifesto (1969)• The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolutio

n (1971)

• Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology (1979)

Non-fiction Books Published Phosthumously

• Non-fiction Books Published Posthumously• Philosophy: Who Needs It, edited by Leonard Peikoff (1982)• The Voice of Reason, edited by Leonard Peikoff (1989)• The Ayn Rand Column, edited by Peter Schwartz (1991)• Letters of Ayn Rand, edited by Michael S. Berliner (1995)• Ayn Rand's Marginalia, edited by Robert Mayhew (1995)• Journals of Ayn Rand, edited by David Harriman (1997)• The Ayn Rand Reader, edited by Gary Hull and Leonard Peikoff (1999)• Return of the Primitive, edited by Peter Schwartz (1999)• Russian Writings on Hollywood, edited by Michael S. Berliner, translated by Dina

Garmong (1999)• The Art of Fiction, edited by Tore Boeckmann (2000)• The Art of Nonfiction, edited by Robert Mayhew (2001)• The Ayn Rand Sampler (2002)• Ayn Rand Answers, edited by Robert Mayhew (2005)

Books with Selection by Ayn Rand

• The following books include essays or lengthy excerpts by Ayn Rand, but the bulk of the material in them is by other authors.

• The Capitalist Reader, edited by Lawrence S. Stepelevich (1977)• The Market Economy: A Reader, edited by James L. Doti and Dwight R.

Lee (1991)• Humanity: Ideas and Ideals, edited by Jane Z. Brown (1993)• Moral Philosophy: A Reader (Second Edition), edited by Louis P.

Pojman (1998)• Why Businessmen Need Philosophy, edited by Richard E. Ralston

(1999)• Reason and Responsibility: Readings in Some Basic Problems of

Philosophy (Tenth Edition), edited by Joel Feinberg (1999)• The Moral Life, edited by Louis P. Pojman (2000)

Ayn Rand is one of America's great mysteries. She was an amphetamine-addicted author of sub-Dan Brown potboilers, who in her spare time wrote lavish torrents of praise for serial

killers and the Bernie Madoff-style embezzlers of her day. She opposed democracy on the grounds that "the

masses"—her readers—were "lice" and "parasites" who scarcely deserved to live. Yet she remains one of the most popular writers

in the United States, still selling 800,000 books a year from beyond the grave.

Video

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9mJpVf4dkc

Name of the video -Last Week Tonight - Ayn Rand