Rand later recreated this model in many of her fictional characters, including the mysterious John Galt in Atlas Shrugged. The heroic man," she described him to her biographer. At the age of nine, she had already developed a strong fascination about the battle between good and evil, as well as her notion of the characteristics of the ideal man. According to her biographer, Barbara Brandon in The Passion of Ayn Rand, Rand was a precocious child who spent much time among adults, gathering information about the world around her. Her family was relatively wealthy Rand's father was a self-made man who owned a pharmacy. Alice Rosenbaum, was born on February 2, 1905, in St. But first, the protagonists must learn how to let go of the ties of obligation, responsibility, and guilt connecting them to the abusive community in all aspects of their lives.Īs Rand said to her biographer, Nathaniel Branden, the novel explains her philosophical principles in a dramatic action story combining "metaphysics, morality, economics, politics and sex." Rand wrote Atlas Shrugged with a sense of mission she said, "fter Atlas I was no longer pres-sured, my lifelong assignment was over." Despite tremendous popular success-the novel sold over 5 million copies by 1984-Rand believed she had explained her philosophical views clearly enough and did not write another word of fiction for the rest of her life Author BiographyĪyn Rand, a.k.a. Things change, however, when the mysterious John Galt begins a revolution against the existing order, believing that the parasitic society would destroy itself if its competent and hard-working members would simply stop working. The novel's main protagonists, Dagny Taggart and Hank Rearden, are capitalist-minded industrialists, "Atlases" who carry the collapsing national economy on their backs.
Set in an imaginary America in a communist world, Atlas Shrugged is a sharp critique of a corrupt communist system and its damaging effects on areas as various as love, science, and industrial productivity. A complex combination of mystery, love story, social criticism, and philosophical concepts, the 1,100-page novel embodies the author's passionate celebration of individualism, free will, capitalism, logic, and reason. According to a 1991 Library of Congress report, it is considered the second most influential book after the Bible in the lives of its readers. The final novel written by Russian-born American philosopher and author Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged is a controversial and widely popular work.
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