The Fountainhead: Biography: Ayn Rand
BiographyAlisa Rosenbaum, who was to become Ayn Rand, was born into a wealthy family in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1905. Extremely precocious, she taught herself to read and at eleven decided to become a writer. In 1917, the youngster witnessed the beginnings of the Russian Revolution and the Bolshevik Revolution. Her family fled to the …