Ayn Rand

Known by her pen name Ayn Rand, Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum was a Russian-American writer and philosopher who moved to the United States in 1926. She is best known for the novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, along with Anthem and We the Living, and in her later years she turned to essays such as The Virtue of Selfishness to promote her philosophy of Objectivism. Her books have sold over 37 million copies.