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Katherine Anne Porter

American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist

1890 - 1980

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Her biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2024). Katherine Anne Porter is the 3,666th most popular writer (up from 3,918th in 2024), the 5,297th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,089th in 2019) and the 407th most popular American Writer.

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Katherine Anne Porter's biography spans 37 Wikipedia language editions and earns a Historical Popularity Index of 58.82.

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Among Writers

Among writers, Katherine Anne Porter ranks 3,666 out of 7,707. Before her are Movses Kaghankatvatsi, Nonius Marcellus, Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko, Marie-Joseph Chénier, Carmen Laforet, and Peter Andreas Heiberg. After her are Etgar Keret, Julius Obsequens, Jean Rotrou, Alaa Al Aswany, Alexandru Macedonski, and Lisa Tetzner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Katherine Anne Porter ranks 149. Before her are Karl Freund, Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, Mehmet Fuat Köprülü, Thomas Tien Ken-sin, Erich Weinert, and Boris Delaunay. After her are Elmer Niklander, Traugott Herr, Joachim von Kortzfleisch, Tibor Szamuely, Elia Abu Madi, and Moa Martinson. Among people deceased in 1980, Katherine Anne Porter ranks 166. Before her are Sanjay Gandhi, Jan Werich, Dorothy Day, Terence Fisher, Boris Delaunay, and Jean Robic. After her are Ángel Sanz Briz, Fatmawati, Rachel Roberts, Princess Alexandrine of Prussia, Pyotr Masherov, and Marcel Langiller.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Katherine Anne Porter ranks 5,297 out of 23,232. Before her are Valerie Perrine (1943), Lewis Boss (1846), Ed Koch (1924), Elizabeth Mitchell (1970), Joan Blondell (1906), and Rosalind E. Krauss (1941). After her are Jeezy (1977), Julia Gardiner Tyler (1820), Robert Montgomery (1904), Sable (1967), Lauren German (1978), and James Crafts (1839).

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Among Writers In United States

Among writers born in United States, Katherine Anne Porter ranks 407. Before her are James Russell Lowell (1819), Brandon Sanderson (1975), L. J. Smith (1965), Gary Snyder (1930), William Goldman (1931), and Howard Pyle (1853). After her are David Foster Wallace (1962), Robert B. Spencer (1962), James A. Michener (1907), Rose Wilder Lane (1886), Octavia E. Butler (1947), and Steve Berry (1955).

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