What more can we say about this literary power-house ….the champion of individualism….objectivism and positive selfishness !

She was ….in a way…..propagating PEGO….positive Ego… and Creativity!

As a tribute, we have put together a brief fact file…..so that our readers can get an idea of what Ayn Rand was….and is….all about :

Her novels figure prominently in readers' lists of the 20th century's greatest books.

In a 1991 survey of more than 2,000 Book-of-the-Month Club members about books that made a difference in their lives, Rand's magnum opus, Atlas Shrugged, came in second to the Bible

Here are a few of her  famous quotes:

 “To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'”

“To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.”

“The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.”

“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.”

“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others”

 Literary Success:

Although Rand's influence has been greatest in the United States, she has a growing international following. Her books were international best sellers, and continued to sell in large numbers in the 21st century. For example, Atlas Shrugged is consistently in the top few hundred best sellers at Amazon.com; 185,000 copies were sold in 2007, fifty years after it was first published.

 Sales have grown significantly since the events of the economic crisis caused by the 2007 credit crunch seemed to be similar to those in the book. On April 2, 2009, the book's ranking peaked at 15, surpassing other, more recent best-sellers such as Barack Obama's book, The Audacity of Hope, after reaching and maintaining the number 1 position in the category of "Fiction & Literature - United States" for several weeks consecutively.
 
Rand's novels, when they were first published, received almost unanimously terrible reviews" and were derided by some critics as long and melodramatic.

 However, they became bestsellers due largely to word of mouth.

Scholars of English and American literature have largely ignored her work, although Rand has received occasional positive reviews from the literary establishment.

In her Literary Encyclopedia entry written in 2001, John Lewis declared that "Rand wrote the most intellectually challenging fiction of her generation.

Rand and Objectivism: The essence of Objectivism, according to Rand, is "the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute."

( courtesy wikipedia)