Ayn+Rand

=Ayn Rand= On February 2, 1905, Ayn Rand was born in St.Petersburg, Russia. At six years old, Rand taught herself to read and in 1913, about 8 years old, Rand found her first fictional hero in a French magazine. And at 9 years old, she decided that she wanted to be a fictional writer. she was strictly against mysticism, and collectivism which was apart of russian culture. In high school, she was there for the Kerensky revolution, which she for, and the Bolshevik revolution, which she was not so fond of. Her family and her left to live in Crimea to escape the fighting, and where she also finished high school. At the end of high school, she started to learn about American history and longed for the free country that it was and not the communist country that Russia. When she returned from Crimea, She joined the University of Petograd. There, she studies philosophy and history, she graduated in 1924. She felt that itr was becoming taken over by communist thugs and that everything around her was becoming grey. This was sad because she was a fan of Viennese operettas and western films and plays. In 1925, Ayn published a booklet on Polga Negri, and another booklet titles hollywood: American movie city. In late 1925, she escaped soviet Russia by saying that she was visiting her relatives for a short time, but she had no intention of returning. She left for New York City. She then spent some time in Chicago with relatives, then took off for Hollywood to becaome a screen writer. Cecile B DeMille saw Rand standing outside and hired her as an extra and then as a script reader. She met an actor on set named Frank O'Connor and they married in 1929 and remained marrired until Frank died fifty years later. Rand struggled for a few years with non writing jobs, then she wrote her first novel in 1934, but many publishers denied the book until 1936. She began writing //the Fountainhead// in 1935 and was not accepted by publishers until 1946. Then in 1951, she moved back to New York to work on //Atlas Shrugged// where it was completed in 1957 and published as her best fiction novel. After some years of lecturing Ayn Rand died in March 6, 1982. She was a major inspiration to many soviet 'prisoners' who wanted more than to stay in a communist government that they did not agree with.