Author:Ayn Rand

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Ayn Rand
(1905–1982)

Born Alissa Zinovievna Rosenbaum, she was best known for her philosophy of Objectivism and her novels.

Ayn Rand

Works[edit]

Fiction[edit]

Plays[edit]

Non-fiction[edit]

  • 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 (1967)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2063
  • The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature (1969)
  • The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution (1971)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2067 (includes an essay by Leonard Peikoff)
  • Philosophy: Who Needs It? (1982)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2078
  • The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought (1988)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2084 (includes essays by Leonard Peikoff and Peter Schwartz)
  • The Ayn Rand Column: Written for the Los Angeles Times (1991)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2087, ed. P. Schwartz
  • Ayn Rand's Marginalia: Her Critical Comments on the Writings of Over 20 Authors (1995)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2091, ed. R. Mayhew
  • Letters of Ayn Rand (1995)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2091, ed. M.S. Berliner
  • Journals of Ayn Rand (1997)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2093, ed. D. Harriman
  • The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution (1998)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2094, ed. P. Schwartz (includes essays by Peter Schwartz)
  • The Ayn Rand Reader (1999)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2095, ed. G. Hull, L. Peikoff
  • Russian Writings on Hollywood (1999)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2095, ed. M.S. Berliner, trans. D. Garmong
  • The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers (2000)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2096, ed. T. Boeckmann
  • The Art of Nonfiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers (2001)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2097, ed. R. Mayhew
  • Ayn Rand Answers: The Best of Her Q & A (2005)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2101, ed. R. Mayhew

Books with selections by Ayn Rand[edit]

  • The Capitalist Reader (1977)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2073, ed. L.S. Stepelevich
  • The Market Economy: A Reader (1991)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2087, ed. J.L. Doti, D.R. Lee
  • Humanity: Ideas and Ideals (1993)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2089, ed. J.Z. Brown
  • Moral Philosophy: A Reader (Second Edition) (1998)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2094, ed. L.P. Pojman
  • Why Businessmen Need Philosophy (1999)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2095, ed. R.E. Ralston
  • Reason and Responsibility: Readings in Some Basic Problems of Philosophy (Tenth Edition) (1999)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2095, ed. J. Feinberg
  • The Moral Life: An Introductory Reader in Ethics and Literature (2000)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2096, ed. L.P. Pojman


Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were 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.


This author died in 1982, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 41 years or less. These works may 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.

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