WRITER

Agnes Smedley

1892 - 1950

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Agnes Smedley (February 23, 1892 – May 6, 1950) was an American journalist, writer and activist who supported the Indian Independence Movement and the Chinese Communist Revolution. Raised in a poverty-stricken miner's family in Missouri and Colorado, she dramatized the formation of her feminist and socialist consciousness in the autobiographical novel Daughter of Earth (1929). As a college student during World War I, she organized support for the independence of India from the United Kingdom, receiving financial support from the government of Germany. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Agnes Smedley has received more than 246,893 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Agnes Smedley is the 1,814th most popular writer (down from 1,595th in 2019), the 2,284th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,081st in 2019) and the 201st most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 250k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.93

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.21

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

China fights back
China, China. Lu jun. Lu jun, di 8., Communism
1938
Daughter of earth
Feminism, Fiction, Juvenile fiction
1929
The great road
Communism
1956
Portraits of Chinese women in revolution
History, Women
1976
Chinese destinies
Communism, Description and travel, Social conditions
1933
China's Red army marches
Chung-kuo kuo min tang, Communism, History
1934

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Agnes Smedley ranks 1,814 out of 7,302. Before her are Alberto Manguel, Petros Markaris, Alfredo M. Bonanno, Theophylact of Ohrid, Martin of Opava, and Josep Pla. After her are Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Masaoka Shiki, Theodor Nöldeke, Juan Carlos Onetti, Frederik Pohl, and Gregory Tsamblak.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Agnes Smedley ranks 95. Before her are Konstantin Paustovsky, Rashid Ali al-Gaylani, Alice Ball, Radola Gajda, Djuna Barnes, and Nikolai Polikarpov. After her are Ivan Šubašić, Dietrich von Saucken, Edoardo Agnelli, Ludwig Crüwell, Erich Brandenberger, and Mahidol Adulyadej. Among people deceased in 1950, Agnes Smedley ranks 57. Before her are Adam Rainer, Grigory Kulik, Liane de Pougy, Rafael Sabatini, Alfred Korzybski, and Alma Karlin. After her are Kim Kyu-sik, Henry H. Arnold, Walter Huston, Abraham Wald, Olaf Stapledon, and Hantaro Nagaoka.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Agnes Smedley ranks 2,284 out of 20,380. Before her are Kanye West (1977), Alyssa Milano (1972), La Toya Jackson (1956), Dinah Washington (1924), Marg Helgenberger (1958), and John Mauchly (1907). After her are Lorraine Bracco (1954), Pat Hingle (1924), Charles Dow (1851), Matt Dillon (1964), Frederik Pohl (1919), and William E. Moerner (1953).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Agnes Smedley ranks 201. Before her are Raymond E. Feist (1945), Patricia Cornwell (1956), Robert Silverberg (1935), Djuna Barnes (1892), Joseph D. Pistone (1939), and Betty Friedan (1921). After her are Frederik Pohl (1919), Stephen Crane (1871), Rick Riordan (1964), Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815), Anne Sexton (1928), and William Moulton Marston (1893).

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