Possible Clues:

• "Atlas Shrugged" writer Rand
• Name on the cover of ''The Fountainhead''
• 'We the Living' author Rand
• First name in Objectivism
• With 17-Down, 'Atlas Shrugged' author
• “___ Rand is one of those things that a lot of us, when we were 17 or 18 and feeling misunderstood, we’d pick up': Barack Obama
• Philosopher Rand
• Rand who created Dagny Taggart
• ''The Fountainhead'' author Rand
• Rand who created John Galt