Born: February 2, 1905(1905-02-02) St. Petersburg, Russia



Died: March 6, 1982 (aged 77) New York City



Occupation: novelist, philosopher, playwright, screenwriter



Influences: Aristotle, John Locke, Thomas Aquinas, Friedrich Nietzsche, Victor Hugo, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ludwig von Mises, Isabel Paterson



Influenced: James Clavell, John Hospers, Harry Binswanger, Nathaniel Branden, Barbara Branden, Allan Gotthelf, Leonard Peikoff, George Reisman, John Ridpath, Tara Smith, Alan Greenspan, Terry Goodkind, Anton LaVey