
Four new biographies on Rand were published in recent years. Her philosophy, Objectivism is taught in universities and by nonprofit organizations there are over 60 Ayn Rand fan clubs on college campuses and web sites devoted to her work flourish.

Over 80 years after its first publication, "We the Living" is still in print and can be found in bookstores across the country.įollowing her death in 1982, Rand's influence has continued to grow at an astonishing rate: annual sales of her books have reached as high as 500,000 per year a big budget three-part movie series of "Atlas Shrugged" was released in theaters in 2013 "The Fountainhead" -starring Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal has become an enduring film classic. While Rand is best-known for her later novels, "The Fountainhead" (published in 1943) and "Atlas Shrugged" (published in 1957), "We the Living" has sold over three million copies and has become a literary classic.

We the Living, her first novel, was originally published in 1936.
