Perhaps Ayn Rand (Alice Rosenbaum) is the most popular English-language writer of Russian origin. She was born in the capital St. Petersburg, fled to Crimea from revolutionary Petrograd, wrote her first works in Soviet Leningrad, from where she emigrated to the United States, where she became a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, philosopher, and cultural critic. With her intellectual bestsellers, she influenced the formation of the ideology of the modern capitalist world. American presidents and businessmen read them; they are included in the curriculum of US educational institutions. Allusions to her works can be found in modern music, books, youth subculture and even a computer game, and her turbulent personal life became the plot of a sensational Hollywood film. She hated communism and believed that any country in the “free world” had the moral right to attack the USSR, created the philosophy of objectivism and proclaimed selfishness the main human virtue. Having worldwide fame, she is almost unknown in her homeland. The biography of Ayn Rand fills this gap - the story of a Jewish Cinderella from Russia who became the queen of American intellectual life.