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Elizabeth Bishop

1911 - 1979

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Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911 – October 6, 1979) was an American poet and short-story writer. She was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1949 to 1950, the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry in 1956, the National Book Award winner in 1970, and the recipient of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1976. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elizabeth Bishop has received more than 1,189,035 page views. Her biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Elizabeth Bishop is the 1,553rd most popular writer (up from 1,558th in 2019), the 1,913th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,019th in 2019) and the 167th most popular American Writer.

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  • 58.18

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  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.00

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Poems
American poetry
1956
Questions of travel
American poetry
1965
Geography III
1976
Prose works
1984
Brazil
Descripciones y viajes
1962
One Art
Correspondence, American Women poets, American Poets
1994

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Elizabeth Bishop ranks 1,553 out of 7,302. Before her are Usama ibn Munqidh, Elizabeth of the Trinity, John Dickson Carr, Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry, Junji Ito, and Raymond Roussel. After her are Pío Baroja, Antoine de Montchrestien, Ben Shapiro, Wen Tianxiang, Liu Cixin, and Michael Moorcock.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Elizabeth Bishop ranks 79. Before her are Jussi Björling, William Stuart-Houston, George Stigler, Maria Reiter, Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, and Roberto Matta. After her are Lucille Ball, Thanom Kittikachorn, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Hubert Humphrey, Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, and Renée Simonot. Among people deceased in 1979, Elizabeth Bishop ranks 60. Before her are Nicos Poulantzas, Pier Luigi Nervi, Charles W. Morris, Nereo Rocco, Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry, and Richard Rodgers. After her are Konstantin Simonov, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Yukio Tsuda, Jacques Mesrine, Louis Durey, and Gustavo Díaz Ordaz.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Elizabeth Bishop ranks 1,913 out of 20,380. Before her are John Dickson Carr (1906), Johns Hopkins (1795), Richard Rodgers (1902), Richard Sennett (1943), Daryl Hannah (1960), and Bernard Baruch (1870). After her are Lady Bird Johnson (1912), Ben Shapiro (1984), Jeffery Deaver (1950), Carolyn S. Shoemaker (1929), Frank Stella (1936), and Lee Remick (1935).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Elizabeth Bishop ranks 167. Before her are James Oliver Curwood (1878), Robert Jordan (1948), Nora Roberts (1950), Edward Albee (1928), Carson McCullers (1917), and John Dickson Carr (1906). After her are Ben Shapiro (1984), Jeffery Deaver (1950), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807), Dean Koontz (1945), Langston Hughes (1902), and Clarissa Pinkola Estés (1945).

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