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Alice B. Toklas

1877 - 1967

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Alice Babette Toklas (April 30, 1877 – March 7, 1967) was an American-born member of the Parisian avant-garde of the early 20th century, and the life partner of American writer Gertrude Stein. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alice B. Toklas has received more than 1,139,537 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Alice B. Toklas is the 2,504th most popular writer (up from 2,778th in 2019), the 3,171st most popular biography from United States (up from 3,642nd in 2019) and the 271st most popular American Writer.

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  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alice B. Toklas ranks 2,504 out of 7,302Before her are Maria Gripe, Giovanni de' Bardi, Carlos Marighella, Balthasar Russow, Herman Gorter, and Annie M. G. Schmidt. After her are Gustave Aimard, Bulleh Shah, René Crevel, Theodore Prodromos, Xu Zhimo, and Ron Kovic.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Alice B. Toklas ranks 72Before her are Ivy Lee, Sigfrid Karg-Elert, Renée Vivien, Sergei Bortkiewicz, James Montgomery Flagg, and Alfredo Guzzoni. After her are Luke Voyno-Yasenetsky, Georges Catroux, Patriarch Alexy I of Moscow, Léon Flameng, Princess Pauline of Württemberg, and Erich von Hornbostel. Among people deceased in 1967, Alice B. Toklas ranks 107Before her are Mir Osman Ali Khan, Robert J. Van de Graaff, Gregory Goodwin Pincus, Franz Waxman, Paul Löbe, and Ferenc Münnich. After her are Geki, Josef Frank, Ernst Wollweber, Isaac Deutscher, Eugen Fischer, and Joseph Cardijn.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alice B. Toklas ranks 3,171 out of 20,380Before her are William Labov (1927), Wesley Clark (1944), Michael Bishop (1945), George William Hill (1838), John Milius (1944), and Anthony Edwards (1962). After her are Artie Shaw (1910), Richard Hamming (1915), Lesley Gore (1946), Marlena Shaw (1939), Joseph Strauss (1870), and Ron Kovic (1946).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Alice B. Toklas ranks 271Before her are Kate Chopin (1850), Mary Mapes Dodge (1831), Winston Groom (1943), Annie Proulx (1935), Richard Wright (1908), and Michael Bishop (1945). After her are Ron Kovic (1946), Donald E. Westlake (1933), Margaret Fuller (1810), John Edward Williams (1922), Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809), and Katherine Jackson (1930).