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Birth
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Ayn Rand Timeline
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Revolution
Around 1917 through 1918, Ayn was in high school. During her high school times, she witnessed the Russian Revolution. (The Kerensky and Bolshevik.) She strongly supported the Kerensky Revolution but not the Bolshevik. With all the fighting, her family was forced to move to Crimea. With the final communist victory, Ayn's father's pharmacy was closed down and her family was brought to near-starvation. -
As an Author
When Ayn Rand was just about nine years old, she figured out she wanted to be an author. She thought of herself as a European Author because she was thoroughly opposed to the collectivism and mysticism of the Russian culture. -
Marriage
Cecil B. DeMille saw Ayn standing at his studio and he gave her the job as an extra in his movie, "The King of Kings," then he gave her the job of being a script reader. During the week, she met an actor, Frank O'Connor, which she married in 1929. -
Career Writer
Rand's career as a writer was launched in 1932, when she successfully sold a screenplay to Universal Studios. -
We the Living
Ayn's first book was completed in 1933, but it was rejected by many publishers for years. It was finally published by the Macmillan in the U.S and the Cassell in England in 1936. This was one of her most autobiographical books, was based on her life while living under the Soviet Union, so it wasn't very popular among American people or critics. -
Began Working
In 1946, Rand began work on her most ambitious novel, Atlas Shrugged. At the time she was working part-time as a screenwriter for producer Hal Wallis. In 1951 she and her husband moved to New York City, where she began to work full-time on Atlas. -
Attracted Readers
The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, however, had attracted to Rand many readers who were strongly interested in the philosophical ideas the novels embodied and in pursuing them further. Among the earliest of those with whom Rand became associated and who later became prominent were psychologist Nathan.Her interactions with these and several other key individuals were partly responsible for Rand's turning from fiction to non-fiction writing in order to develop her philosophy more systematically. -
Atlas Shrugged
Publishesd in 1957, Atlas Shrugged was her greatest achievement and last work of fiction. In this novel, she dramatized her unique philosphy in an intellectual mystery story that integrated ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, politics, economics, and sex. -
Her Creativity
Although she considered herself primarily a fiction writer, she realized that in order to create heroic fictional characters, she had to identify the philosophic principles which make such individuals possible. She needed to formulate "a philosphy for living on earth." -
Objectivism
Later on, Ayn wrote and lectured about her philosophy on Objectivism. She published and edited her own periodicals from 1962 to 1976. Her essays provided a bunch of information/material for books on Objectivism and how it apples to our culture. -
Death
Ayn Rand's death
