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Adrienne Rich

1929 - 2012

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Adrienne Cecile Rich ( AD-ree-ən; May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bringing "the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse". Rich criticized rigid forms of feminist identities, and valorized what she coined the "lesbian continuum", which is a female continuum of solidarity and creativity that impacts and fills women's lives. Her first collection of poetry, A Change of World, was selected by icon W. H. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adrienne Rich has received more than 1,368,838 page views. Her biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Adrienne Rich is the 3,509th most popular writer (down from 2,941st in 2019), the 4,490th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,861st in 2019) and the 374th most popular American Writer.

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  • 41

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  • 5.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Adrienne Rich ranks 3,509 out of 7,302. Before her are Hulda Garborg, Filip Višnjić, William Cowper, Dennis Lehane, Gonzalo de Berceo, and Martin Gray. After her are Theodor Körner, Giuseppe Parini, Léo Malet, Abraham Jacob van der Aa, Emmanuel Bove, and Alexey Troitsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Adrienne Rich ranks 253. Before her are Toshiko Akiyoshi, Yuri Artsutanov, June Squibb, Jürgen Ehlers, Fernando Sebastián Aguilar, and István Kertész. After her are Link Wray, Rutka Laskier, Slavko Avsenik, Hermann Prey, Ken McGregor, and Harry Frankfurt. Among people deceased in 2012, Adrienne Rich ranks 194. Before her are Kurt Adolff, Donald "Duck" Dunn, Maxim of Bulgaria, Sancho Gracia, Ruggiero Ricci, and Elliott Carter. After her are Zakaria Mohieddin, Fiorenzo Magni, Luis Alberto Spinetta, Roald Aas, Jon Finch, and Mustafa Ould Salek.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Adrienne Rich ranks 4,490 out of 20,380. Before her are Jon Polito (1950), Randall Duk Kim (1943), Vincent Pastore (1946), Dennis Lehane (1965), Catherine Hicks (1951), and Nathan Lane (1956). After her are Bryce DeWitt (1923), Lorraine Gary (1937), Andrew Tate (1986), Reed Hastings (1960), Jared Padalecki (1982), and Tom Welling (1977).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Adrienne Rich ranks 374. Before her are H.D. (1886), Octavia E. Butler (1947), Gary Snyder (1930), Jonathan Littell (1967), Jeff Lindsay (1952), and Dennis Lehane (1965). After her are Sara Teasdale (1884), Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892), Kim Stanley Robinson (1952), Donald Barthelme (1931), Howard Pyle (1853), and Cotton Mather (1663).

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