Ayn Rand, known by her real name as Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum is a Russian-born American writer and philosopher. She is known for the philosophical system she coined as "Objectivism". Ayn Rand lived through the Russian revolution, and witnessed the terror of government socialism, collectivism, and tyranny. She left the USSR in 1926, gained permanent American residency in 1929, and became an American citizen in 1931.
