![]() Rand started her writing career in Hollywood though, and her hatred of communism was never more clearly visible than when she happily testified against her Hollywood colleagues in front the U.S. Her plays, such as The Unconquered, usually included anti-communist and pro-capitalist themes as well. In addition to writing novels, she was also a playwright. This experience can be seen clearly in her first fiction novel, We the Living, which was published in 1936. Her family experienced great financial loss after her father’s business was confiscated by the Bolsheviks. Rand’s philosophy of promoting individualism over conformity, and her love of capitalism, were formed during her childhood in Russia. ![]() “Individualism will be my theme until I die,” Rand stated while writing Atlas Shrugged. ![]() Despite these reviews, the dystopian novel that railed against government and idolized capitalism would grow to become a conservative favorite. ![]() One review described prose “ladled from a bottomless vat of molten lead” and “delivered at the piercing, relentless pitch of a shriek” ( Evening Star). Her work always received mixed reviews in the press, and this time was no different. ![]() 65 years ago, prolific author and philosopher Ayn Rand published her longest fiction novel, Atlas Shrugged. ![]()
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