About Ayn Rand, the author of The Fountainhead.

1. Ayn Rand Novelist, Philosopher, Playwright & Screenwriter By: Tai Thomas

2. Rand & Russia Born in Saint Petersburg Russia. Ayn Rand was born as Alisa Rosenbaum. In Russia, Ayn Rand was opposed to the tsar but sympathized with political figure, Alexander Kerensky. Rand's family life was disrupted by the rise of the Bolshevik party. Her father's pharmacy was confiscated by the Soviets, and the family fled to the Crimea. She graduated from high school in the Crimea and briefly held a job teaching Red Army soldiers to read. At sixteen, Rand returned with her family to Saint Petersburg. She enrolled at the University of Petrograd, where she studied in the department of social pedagogy, majoring in history. She left Russia on January 17, 1926.

5. “The concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.”

6. She awknowledged Aristotle as an great influence.

8. Personal Life Views on Homosexuality & Feminism Views on Sex Roles Ayn Rand was against homosexuality & Feminism. (The New Left) “Homosexuality is immoral, and more than that; if you want my really sincere opinion, it's disgusting.” Rand died in 1982. Rand asserted that the "the essence of femininity is hero worship — the desire to look up to man“. And that “an ideal woman is a man-worshipper, and an ideal man is the highest symbol of mankind.“ She felt that psychologically healthy for a woman to want to be ruled in sexual matters by a man. Psychotherapist Nathaniel Branden: Rand's extramarital lover and onetime "intellectual heir.”