Author:Ayn Rand

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Ayn Rand (1905–1982)

sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons category, quotes. Born Alissa Zinovievna Rosenbaum, she was best known for her philosophy of Objectivism and her novels We the Living, Anthem, The Fountainhead, and Atlas Shrugged.

Works

Fiction

• We the Living (1936)
• "Anthem" (1938) (at Project Gutenberg)
• The Fountainhead (1943)
• Atlas Shrugged (1957) — Copyrighted in the United States until 2052 due to Renewal RE235257
• 'The Early Ayn Rand: A Selection from Her Unpublished Fiction — Copyrighted in the United States (1984)

Plays

• Night of January 16th (1934)
• Ideal
• Think Twice

Non-fiction

• Ayn Rand's testimony before the House of Representatives Committee on Un-American Activities (1947)
• For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (1961)
• The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism (1964, includes essays by Nathaniel Branden)
• Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966, includes essays by Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan and Robert Hessen)
• 'An Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology — Copyrighted in the United States (1967)
• The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature (1969)
• 'The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution — Copyrighted in the United States (1971, includes an essay by Leonard Peikoff)
• 'Philosophy: Who Needs It? — Copyrighted in the United States (1982)
• 'The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought — Copyrighted in the United States (1988, includes essays by Leonard Peikoff and Peter Schwartz)
• 'The Ayn Rand Column: Written for the Los Angeles Times — Copyrighted in the United States, ed. P. Schwartz (1991)
• 'Ayn Rand's Marginalia: Her Critical Comments on the Writings of Over 20 Authors — Copyrighted in the United States, ed. R. Mayhew (1995)
• 'Letters of Ayn Rand — Copyrighted in the United States, ed. M.S. Berliner (1995)
• 'Journals of Ayn Rand — Copyrighted in the United States, ed. D. Harriman (1997)
• 'The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution — Copyrighted in the United States, ed. P. Schwartz (1998, includes essays by Peter Schwartz)
• 'The Ayn Rand Reader — Copyrighted in the United States, ed. G. Hull, L. Peikoff (1999)
• 'Russian Writings on Hollywood — Copyrighted in the United States, ed. M.S. Berliner, trans. D. Garmong (1999)
• 'The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers — Copyrighted in the United States, ed. T. Boeckmann (2000)
• 'The Art of Nonfiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers — Copyrighted in the United States, ed. R. Mayhew (2001)
• 'Ayn Rand Answers: The Best of Her Q & A — Copyrighted in the United States, ed. R. Mayhew (2005)

Books with selections by Ayn Rand

• 'The Capitalist Reader — Copyrighted in the United States, ed. L.S. Stepelevich (1977)
• ''The Market Economy: A Reader — Copyrighted in the United States, ed. J.L. Doti, D.R. Lee (1991)
• ''Humanity: Ideas and Ideals — Copyrighted in the United States, ed. J.Z. Brown (1993)
• 'Moral Philosophy: A Reader (Second Edition) — Copyrighted in the United States, ed. L.P. Pojman (1998)
• 'Why Businessmen Need Philosophy — Copyrighted in the United States, ed. R.E. Ralston (1999)
• 'Reason and Responsibility: Readings in Some Basic Problems of Philosophy (Tenth Edition) — Copyrighted in the United States, ed. J. Feinberg (1999)
• 'The Moral Life: An Introductory Reader in Ethics and Literature — Copyrighted in the United States, ed. L.P. Pojman (2000)

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they are legally published within the United States (or the United Nations Headquarters in New York subject to Section 7 of the United States Headquarters Agreement) before 1964, and copyright was not renewed. For Class A renewals records (books only) published between 1923 and 1963, check the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Rutgers copyright renewal records. For other renewal records of publications between 1922 - 1950 see the Pennsylvania copyright records scans. For all records since 1978, search the U.S. Copyright Office records. It is imperative that contributors search the renewal databases and ascertain that there is no evidence of a copyright renewal before using this license. Failure to do so will result in the deletion of the work as a copyright violation. The author died in 1982, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 30 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.