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Emma Lazarus

1849 - 1887

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Emma Lazarus (July 22, 1849 – November 19, 1887) was an American author of poetry, prose, and translations, as well as an activist for Jewish and Georgist causes. She is remembered for writing the sonnet "The New Colossus", which was inspired by the Statue of Liberty, in 1883. Its lines appear inscribed on a bronze plaque, installed in 1903, on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emma Lazarus has received more than 1,119,731 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. Emma Lazarus is the 3,157th most popular writer (up from 3,200th in 2019), the 4,133rd most popular biography from United States (up from 4,188th in 2019) and the 366th most popular American Writer.

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  • 30

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  • 3.19

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  • 3.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Emma Lazarus ranks 3,157 out of 5,755. Before her are René Barjavel, Ahmadou Kourouma, C. S. Forester, Kafū Nagai, Léo Malet, and Ford Madox Ford. After her are Francišak Bahuševič, Leopoldo Lugones, Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Ozaki Kōyō, Georges Sadoul, and Theodor Körner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, Emma Lazarus ranks 60. Before her are Fritz Mauthner, Sergei Ivanovich Mosin, Luther Burbank, Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Ruy Barbosa, and Jean Richepin. After her are Oscar Hertwig, Albert Heim, Jérôme Eugène Coggia, Charles F. Brush, Richard Lydekker, and Jacob Riis. Among people deceased in 1887, Emma Lazarus ranks 28. Before her are William A. Wheeler, Agostino Depretis, Hans von Marées, Joseph Whitworth, J. C. Jacobsen, and Moritz Wagner. After her are Coenraad Johannes van Houten, August Friedrich Pott, Lysander Spooner, Otto Lesser, August von Werder, and Lorenzo Batlle y Grau.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Emma Lazarus ranks 4,133 out of 18,182. Before her are Ellen Church (1904), Mort Shuman (1938), John C. Lilly (1915), Stan Winston (1946), Pamela Sue Martin (1953), and Herman Kahn (1922). After her are Sunita Williams (1965), Melissa Etheridge (1961), Chuck Schuldiner (1967), Lewis Boss (1846), Doug Clifford (1945), and Frank Morgan (1890).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Emma Lazarus ranks 366. Before her are Gregory Benford (1941), Jim Carroll (1949), Bill Bryson (1951), John Perkins (1945), Spencer Johnson (1938), and James Russell Lowell (1819). After her are David Foster Wallace (1962), Joss Whedon (1964), Elbert Hubbard (1856), Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906), Wallace Stevens (1879), and Bruce Sterling (1954).

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