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Elizabeth Edwards

1949 - 2010

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Mary Elizabeth Anania Edwards (July 3, 1949 – December 7, 2010) was an American attorney, author, and health care activist. She was married to John Edwards, the former U.S. Senator from North Carolina who was the Democratic vice-presidential nominee in the 2004 U.S. presidential election. Edwards lived a private life until her husband's rise as senator and ultimately unsuccessful vice presidential and presidential campaigns. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elizabeth Edwards has received more than 1,376,707 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Elizabeth Edwards is the 7,149th most popular writer, the 17,183rd most popular biography from United States and the 1,162nd most popular American Writer.

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  • 31.51

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  • 15

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  • 1.17

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  • 3.52

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Notable Works

Public Images
Photojournalism, Journalism, great britain, Newspapers
2018
Victorian Photography, Literature and the Invention of Modern Memory
Photography, history, Photography, History
2017
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
freedom, selfhood, self-fulfilment
1999
Sensible objects
Material culture, Ethnological museums and collections, Senses and sensation
2006
Photography and Cultural Heritage in the Age of Nationalisms
Ethnology, europe, Photography in ethnology, Photography
2018
Saving Graces
Families, Family, Cancer
She charmed America with her smart, likable, down-to-earth personality as she campaigned for her husband, then vice-presidential candidate John Edwards. She inspired millions as she valiantly fought advanced breast cancer after being diagnosed only days before the 2004 election. She touched hundreds of similarly grieving families when her own son, Wade, died tragically at age sixteen in 1996. Now she shares her experiences in Saving Graces, an incandescent memoir of Edwards' trials, tragedies, and triumphs, and of how various communities celebrated her joys and lent her steady strength and quiet hope in darker times.Edwards writes about growing up in a military family, where she learned how to make friends easily in dozens of new schools and neighborhoods around the world and came to appreciate the unstinting help and comfort naval families shared. Edwards' reminiscences of her years as a mother focus on the support she and other parents offered one another, from everyday favors to the ultimate test of her own community's strength--their compassionate response to the death of the Edwards' teenage son, Wade, in 1996. Her descriptions of her husband's campaigns for Senate, president, and vice president offer a fascinating perspective on the groups, great and small, that sustain our democracy. Her fight with breast cancer, which stirred an outpouring of support from women across the country, has once again affirmed Edwards' belief in the power of community to make our lives better and richer.
2006

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Elizabeth Edwards ranks 7,149 out of 7,302. Before her are Vince Flynn, Kate Grenville, Dorota Masłowska, Patrick McCabe, Ottessa Moshfegh, and Pamela Geller. After her are Edward Kitsis, James Frey, Mohsin Hamid, Espido Freire, Shehan Karunatilaka, and Chetan Bhagat.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Elizabeth Edwards ranks 812. Before her are Tom Cole, J. P. Dutta, Tom Forsyth, Ian Stewart, Charlie McCreevy, and Sammy Nelson. After her are Ilene Graff, Nancy Hollister, Dolly Guleria, and Will Ryan. Among people deceased in 2010, Elizabeth Edwards ranks 499. Before her are Andrew Koenig, Antonio Pettigrew, Lucille Clifton, Natalia Lavrova, Death of Khaled Mohamed Saeed, and Andy Holmes. After her are John Murtha, Lorenzen Wright, Derlis Florentín, Besian Idrizaj, Lance Cade, and Daiki Sato.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Elizabeth Edwards ranks 17,183 out of 20,380. Before her are John Harkes (1967), John Pizzarelli (1960), Joe-Max Moore (1971), Rob Letterman (1970), Pamela Geller (1958), and Sharon Van Etten (1981). After her are Serena Auñón-Chancellor (1976), Melody Thornton (1984), Junior Bridgeman (1953), Christa B. Allen (1991), Gyasi Zardes (1991), and Jen Taylor (1973).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Elizabeth Edwards ranks 1,162. Before her are Ann Brashares (1967), Dav Pilkey (1966), Clay Shirky (1964), Vince Flynn (1966), Ottessa Moshfegh (1981), and Pamela Geller (1958). After her are Edward Kitsis (1971), James Frey (1969), Ta-Nehisi Coates (1975), J. G. Quintel (1982), Jane Espenson (1964), and Kristin Cashore (1976).

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