In 1935 she began writing The Fountainhead. This novel was what she was trying to accomplish all her years. It was also turned down by twelve different publishers before Bobbs-Merrill published it in 1943. Two years later it was a best-seller.
The Fountainhead became so popular that Ayn began writing the screenplay for it. But the war delayed the production of the movie until 1948. After she completed that movie, Ayn became a screenwriter for Hal Wallis.
Three years later Ayn moved back to New York so she could devote all her time to her new novel, Atlas Shrugged. After six years it was finally finished. Atlas Shrugged was published in 1957 and soon became her best and last piece of fiction.
Being the great writer that she was, Ayn knew that to better flesh out her characters she needed to identify their philosophic principles that made them tick. So from then on she began writing on lecturing on her own brand of philosophy Objectivism. She published her own......
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