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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 127,396 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Bel Kaufman is the 4,039th most popular writer (up from 4,507th in 2019), the 3,785th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,805th in 2019) and the 238th most popular German Writer.

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  • 130k

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  • 48.49

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Bel Kaufman ranks 4,039 out of 5,755Before her are Akazome Emon, Pierre Pithou, Edna O'Brien, Charles Malik, Aurora Mardiganian, and Leopold Staff. After her are Arturo Uslar Pietri, Joe Abercrombie, Richard Hughes, Thomas Friedman, Michael Morpurgo, and Ari Behn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Bel Kaufman ranks 198Before her are Sándor Bíró, Ellen Corby, Nicolae Kovács, Brian O'Nolan, Leif Erickson, and Jean Shiley. After her are Lisa Fonssagrives, Stan Kenton, Milorad B. Protić, Butterfly McQueen, Gavriil Kachalin, and Betty Robinson. Among people deceased in 2014, Bel Kaufman ranks 234Before her are René Llense, Pierre Bec, Dave Legeno, Lilli Carati, Gough Whitlam, and Ernie Terrell. After her are Abdul Qadir, James Shigeta, Małgorzata Braunek, Victor J. Stenger, Ryhor Baradulin, and Valeriya Novodvorskaya.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Bel Kaufman ranks 3,785 out of 6,142Before her are Otto von Emmich (1848), Jan Nowak-Jeziorański (1914), Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt (1669), Nur Fettahoğlu (1980), Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt (1825), and Uwe Bein (1960). After her are Heinz Müller (1924), Maxi Herber (1920), Martha Mödl (1912), Julius Rietz (1812), Emil Warburg (1846), and Walter Bruch (1908).

Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Bel Kaufman ranks 238Before her are Brigitte Hamann (1940), Erich Weinert (1890), Bruno Apitz (1900), Louise Otto-Peters (1819), Uwe Timm (1940), and Detlev von Liliencron (1844). After her are Marie Luise Kaschnitz (1901), Fritz Reuter (1810), Maximilian Harden (1861), Robert Jungk (1913), Philipp Nicolai (1556), and Georg Sauerwein (1831).