Ayn Rand

Perhaps, Ayn Rand (Alice Rosenbaum) is the most popular English-speaking writer of Russian origin. She was born in the capital city of St. Petersburg, fled from revolutionary Petrograd, wrote her first works in Soviet Leningrad, from where she emigrated to... the USA, where she became a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, philosopher, and cultural scholar. With her intellectual bestsellers, she influenced the formation of the ideology of the modern capitalist world. They are read by American presidents and businessmen, and they are included in the curriculum of educational institutions in the USA. Allusions to her works can be found in modern music, books, youth subculture, and even video games, while her tumultuous personal life became the plot of a sensational Hollywood film. She hated communism and believed that any country of the "free world" had the moral right to attack the USSR, created the philosophy of Objectivism, and proclaimed egoism as the main virtue of man. Despite her worldwide fame, she is almost unknown in her homeland. Filling this gap is the biography of Ayn Rand - the story of a Jewish Cinderella from Russia who became the queen of American intellectual life.