To free her writing from all traceable associations with her former life, she invented for herself the name Ayn Rand and set out, like the hero of her story, to make a new life for herself, in freedom. She escaped from Russia and, two weeks after her twenty-first birthday, arrived in the United States. Alyssa, whose ambition was to become a writer, knew that she could not survive in a country where free expression was prohibited. After communism came to power in 1917, her father's small business was confiscated, and the family endured years of suffering and danger. She was the daughter of a middle-class family. Then, like her hero, she proceeded to rename herself.Īlissa Rosenbaum, who became Ayn Rand, was born on February 2, 1905, in St. The author of Anthem made the same escape, at the same age. Equality 7-2521, the hero of Anthem, is twenty-one years old when he escapes to freedom from a totalitarian state.
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