"Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values."

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BIOGRAPHY

Ayn Rand was born February 2nd, 1905 in St. Petersburg Russia as Alissa Rosenbaum.  Life during the Bolshevik Revolution was hard on her and she was very opposed to the ideals upheld in Russian culture.  When a group of Communists nationalized her fathers shop, their family became poor overnight.  Many of her objectivist philosophies are based on her past childhood experiences with the evils of Communism.  At age nine, she decided to become a fiction writer, falling in love with the works of Victor Hugo and Edmond Rostand.  Rand went to University of St. Petersburg where she studied history, feeling that it would give her a good background on writing about social issues.  Ayn Rand loved American history, especially the concept of a free nation, and she also liked the culture like movies and plays.  Because of her longing to go to America, she told Russian authorities that she was only visiting, but she never returned to Russia; instead she settled in Hollywood and wrote screenplays.  Ayn Rand married Frank O'Conner in 1929, and financial hardships made it difficult for her to write fiction, so she wrote plays for awhile. Her first major novel, The Fountainhead, was rejected 12 times before it was published, mainly because of Rand's radical theories of ethics.  The Fountainhead, along with Anthem and Atlas Shrugged, are known as her greatest works of fiction.  Sadly, she died on March 6,  1982.