Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When she was nine, she decided that she would become a fiction writer. However, her schooling was interrupted when the Bolshevik ...

Ayn Rand was a Russian-American writer and philosopher who is best known for creating Objectivism, a philosophical system, and for writing important novels that mixed fiction with deeply held beliefs.

Writer Ayn Rand was born in Russia on Feb. 2, 1905. She fell in love with words at an early age, and taught herself to read at the age of six, according to the Ayn Rand Lexicon, and she initially ...