Q: Which Russian-born writer is credited for developing the philosophical system known as “objectivism?” It was the subject of one of her two best-selling novels.
A: Ayn Rand was a Russian-American novelist, screenwriter and playwright best known for her novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. The latter novel was Rand’s final work of fiction and the start of her role as a philosopher. She created Objectivism, a philosophy grounded in reality and aimed at defining human nature and the world in which we live, according to Wikipedia.com. Rand died on this date in 1982.