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John Greenleaf Whittier

American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery

1807 - 1892

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His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 30 in 2024). John Greenleaf Whittier is the 5,440th most popular writer (up from 6,073rd in 2024), the 8,525th most popular biography from United States (up from 10,078th in 2019) and the 626th most popular American Writer.

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Among Writers

Among writers, John Greenleaf Whittier ranks 5,441 out of 7,302Before him are Anton Donchev, Virgilio Piñera, Eduardo Acevedo Díaz, Sida Košutić, Elmer Rice, Mark Strand, and James Cooke Brown. After him are Thomas Mofolo, Iryna Vilde, Brigitte Reimann, M. R. James, and Manuel Antônio de Almeida.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1807, John Greenleaf Whittier ranks 51Before him are Ignatius Brianchaninov, Jules Verreaux, Wilford Woodruff, Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm von Bischoff, Arnold Henry Guyot, and Bernhard Horwitz. After him are Peter Hardeman Burnett, David Rice Atchison, Ira Aldridge, Robert McClure, James Abbott, and Henry Sewell. Among people deceased in 1892, John Greenleaf Whittier ranks 80Before him are Ernestine Rose, Anne Charlotte Leffler, Jay Gould, Sereno Watson, Dimitrios Valvis, and Johan Sverdrup. After him are Georgi Valkovich, Juana Manuela Gorriti, Alexandre Levy, Teréz Karacs, James Skivring Smith, and Harry Atkinson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Greenleaf Whittier ranks 8,525 out of NaNBefore him are Betty Davis (1945), Orville Gibson (1856), Robert S. Kimbrough (1967), A. P. Hill (1825), Grace Lee Whitney (1930), and Nicholas Gonzalez (1976). After him are Anne Osborn Krueger (1934), Bill Monroe (1911), Ben Hogan (1912), Sidney Darlington (1906), Giorgos Kaminis (1954), and Iris Marion Young (1949).

Among Writers In United States

Among writers born in United States, John Greenleaf Whittier ranks 626Before him are James Lee Burke (1936), Robin Morgan (1941), Paddy Chayefsky (1923), Frank O'Hara (1926), Katherine Neville (1945), and Elmer Rice (1892). After him are Eve Ensler (1953), John Holt (1923), Robert Coover (1932), Fran Lebowitz (1950), Chaim Potok (1929), and Robert Christgau (1942).

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