Ayn Rand was a novelist.
Atlas Shrugged is a 1957 novel by Ayn Rand . Ayn Rand . She is known for her two best-selling novels , The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged , and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism . After two early novels that were initially unsuccessful in America , she achieved fame with her 1943 novel , The Fountainhead . The Fountainhead is a 1943 novel by Ayn Rand and was her first major literary success .