I chose Ayn Rand as my 20th century American author One reason why I chose this author was because her name was the only name that came out to me out of all the authors in the list After reading all of the names her name was the only name that I had heard before and remembered Another reason why I chose Ayn Rand was because I remembered reading a book by her called the Anthem which I thought was a good book Since I remembered her name as well as her book I chose to pick her as my author The thr