About Ayn Rand
by: Jenna Cox
Event Information
Ayn Rand Birthday!!!
When?
Monday, Feb 2, 2015, 09:00 PM
Where?
Everywhere
Life story
She was born in 1905 and had been educated in Russia. She came to thee United States in 1926 when she was 21. Her husband was born in 1929 and died in 1979, shortly after he died, she passed in 1982.
Best selling books
Her two best selling books were The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged
Fun Facts
-Her name is actually Alisa Rosenbaum but she changed her name when she moved to the U.S. in 1926.
-When she died she left almost $800,000 in the bank across the street.
One of her most famous books were made into a movie...
Family
Her fathers name was Zinovy Zacharovich Rosenbaum.
Her mothers name was Anna Borisovna Kaplan
They got married May 3 of 1904
Atlas Shrugged
8.4 Millions copies sold.
Fountainhead
753 pages and published in 1943
A Lost Treasure - Excerpt from Ayn Rand Documentary
Information on her life.