The Fountainhead
Novel
By: Ayn Rand
Date: 1943
Source: Rand, Ayn. The Fountainhead. Philadelphia: Blakiston, 1943, 694, 695, 736, 737, 743.
About the Author: Ayn Rand (1905–1982) was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, and emigrated to the United States after the Russian Revolution. She worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1931. Her first novel, We, The Living, was published in 1936. Her 1943 work, The Fountainhead, became her first best-seller. She followed this with a second literary hit, Atlas Shrugged, in 1957. She is best remembered for promoting her individualist philosophy of objectivism in her novels, nonfiction books, and journals.
Introduction
The turn to communism by her native Russia influenced Ayn Rand deeply; all of her work, both fiction and nonfiction, was an indictment of any regime or system of...
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