"'We The Living' is as near to an autobiography as I will ever write." So said novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand, one of the most controversial and enigmatic figures of the twentieth century.  Her books have sold over twenty-three million copies worldwide, and her novels, alone, continue to sell at the rate of roughly 300,000 a year to generation after generation of new admirers. Her provocative moral philosophy has had a powerful and continuing influence on our culture. When the Library of Congress and the Book-of-the-Month Club recently conducted a nationwide survey to discover the books that had most influenced people’s lives, Rand’s ATLAS SHRUGGED was named more often than any book except the Bible.


"We The  Living," her first novel, was published in 1936, re-issued by Random House in 1959, and NAL printed 400,000 paperback copies in 1960. While Rand is best-known for her later novels, "The Fountainhead" (published in 1943) and "Atlas Shrugged" (published in 1957), "We The Living" has, itself, sold over two million copies and, along with "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged," continues to sell each year. Fifty years after its first publication, "We The Living" can still be found in virtually every bookstore in the country.