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Bel Kaufman

1911 - 2014

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Bella Kaufman (May 10, 1911 – July 25, 2014) was an American teacher and author, well known for writing the bestselling 1964 novel Up the Down Staircase. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bel Kaufman has received more than 136,570 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Bel Kaufman is the 4,252nd most popular writer (down from 4,026th in 2019), the 4,189th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,776th in 2019) and the 258th most popular German Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 140k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.46

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.08

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Bel Kaufman ranks 4,252 out of 7,302. Before her are Charlotte Mary Yonge, Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Valerian Pidmohylny, Gabriela Adameșteanu, Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, and Carmen de Burgos. After her are Hwang Sok-yong, Anthony Hope, Titsian Tabidze, Penelope Delta, James Blish, and Yu Dafu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Bel Kaufman ranks 208. Before her are Gustav Wetterström, Kick Smit, Lee Falk, Maclyn McCarty, Antonio Sastre, and Mary Blair. After her are Masayuki Mori, Luise Rinser, Robert Marchand, Katherine DeMille, Jesse Carver, and Big Joe Turner. Among people deceased in 2014, Bel Kaufman ranks 250. Before her are Martin Špegelj, Gundi Busch, Brian Hart, Billie Whitelaw, Valentin Mankin, and Bruno Zumino. After her are Marilyn Burns, Ichirō Nagai, Bernard Agré, Károly Sándor, Angéla Németh, and Francesco Marchisano.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Bel Kaufman ranks 4,189 out of 7,253. Before her are Fritz Noether (1884), Klaus Doldinger (1936), Anna Hübler (1885), Eugen Bolz (1881), Roger Schmidt (1967), and Henriette Herz (1764). After her are Princess Gisela Agnes of Anhalt-Köthen (1722), Theodor Hoffmann (1935), Jacob Hübner (1761), Adam Lonicer (1528), Otto Schily (1932), and Joachim Ringelnatz (1883).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Bel Kaufman ranks 258. Before her are Ken Adam (1921), Maximilian Harden (1861), Brigitte Hamann (1940), Detlev von Liliencron (1844), Johann von Rist (1607), and Carl Sternheim (1878). After her are Joachim Ringelnatz (1883), Iwan Bloch (1872), Fritz Reuter (1810), Joachim Heinrich Campe (1746), Herbert Achternbusch (1938), and Dorothee Sölle (1929).

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