Night of January 16th

About the Playwright

Ayn Rand (1905-1982) was born Alissa Rosenbaum in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1905.  The daughter of a successful pharmacist, she enjoyed a comfortable life for the first twelve years of her life.  Her desire to write can be traced back to the age of nine, when she decided she would be a writer after entertaining her sisters by devising a story about the chorus girls they had seen on a poster on their trip to London.  Her comfortable lifestyle, however, was disrupted by the Bolshevik Revolution.  …
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