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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 1,245,958 page views. Her biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Adrienne Rich is the 2,952nd most popular writer (down from 2,497th in 2019), the 3,872nd most popular biography from United States (down from 3,191st in 2019) and the 345th most popular American Writer.

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  • 40

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  • 2.74

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  • 4.88

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Adrienne Rich ranks 2,952 out of 5,755. Before her are Borislav Pekić, Grigor Parlichev, Neal Stephenson, William Robertson Smith, Peter Bieri, and Gabriela Zapolska. After her are Yu Kil-chun, Sebastian Franck, Michael Bond, Mihály Babits, Elia Levita, and Jean-François Regnard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Adrienne Rich ranks 212. Before her are Gérard de Villiers, Liz Sheridan, Leila Abashidze, Albert Azaryan, Kishore Kumar, and Horst Frank. After her are Piero Cappuccilli, Milton Glaser, Johan Otto von Spreckelsen, Jack Higgins, Liselotte Pulver, and Berry Gordy. Among people deceased in 2012, Adrienne Rich ranks 162. Before her are José María Zárraga, Lisa Della Casa, Barry Commoner, George McGovern, Jack Klugman, and Roy Salvadori. After her are Rajesh Khanna, Friedrich Hirzebruch, Josef Škvorecký, Claude Pinoteau, Ann Rutherford, and I. K. Gujral.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Adrienne Rich ranks 3,872 out of 18,182. Before her are Earl Warren (1891), Neal Stephenson (1959), Tom Bosley (1927), Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829), Robert Anton Wilson (1932), and Bruce Davison (1946). After her are Alvin York (1887), Jennifer Tilly (1958), Alvan Graham Clark (1832), Diane Venora (1952), William Kaelin Jr. (1957), and Michelle Williams (1980).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Adrienne Rich ranks 345. Before her are Andrea Dworkin (1946), Philip Arthur Fisher (1907), William Goldman (1931), Anne Applebaum (1964), Gary Snyder (1930), and Neal Stephenson (1959). After her are Cotton Mather (1663), Robert G. Ingersoll (1833), Douglas Preston (1956), Betty Mahmoody (1945), Robert McKee (1941), and Howard Pyle (1853).

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