- Born
- February 2, 1905
- Died
- March 6, 1982 (aged 77)
- Known as
- playwright, philosopher, novelist, screenwriter, literary critic, essayist
Alice O'Connor, better known by her pen name Ayn Rand, was a Russian-American writer and philosopher. She is known for her fiction and for developing a philosophical system which she named Objectivism.
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