WRITER

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 1,108,765 page views. Her biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Emma Lazarus is the 3,576th most popular writer (down from 3,146th in 2019), the 4,599th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,122nd in 2019) and the 384th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Letters to Emma Lazarus in the Columbia University Library
1966
Songs of a Semite
1882
Poems and translations
1866
The Poems of Emma Lazarus
Accessible book
1888
The Spagnoletto
Drama, Accessible book
1876
The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1
2006

Page views of Emma Lazaruses by language

Over the past year Emma Lazarus has had the most page views in the with 109,870 views, followed by French (5,622), and German (5,391). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hindi (237.04%), Belarusian (74.81%), and Esperanto (49.15%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Emma Lazarus ranks 3,576 out of 7,302. Before her are Robert W. Chambers, Sergio Ramírez, Zsigmond Móricz, Graham Hancock, Krišjānis Barons, and Richard Curtis. After her are Louis Pergaud, Antonio Palomino, Ćamil Sijarić, Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos, Yusuf Idris, and Xanthus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, Emma Lazarus ranks 67. Before her are Luther Burbank, Nikolai Nebogatov, Albert Heim, Olena Pchilka, Charles F. Brush, and Ferdinand Brunetière. After her are Giovanni Passannante, Carl Fredrik Hill, Józef Chełmoński, William Knox D'Arcy, Hugo von Seeliger, and Oscar Hertwig. Among people deceased in 1887, Emma Lazarus ranks 38. Before her are Otto Lesser, Lysander Spooner, August von Werder, Moritz Wagner, Peter Jan Beckx, and Mohamed Sherif Pasha. After her are Lorenzo Batlle y Grau, Alvan Clark, Friedrich Theodor Vischer, August Friedrich Pott, Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, and Mikhail Katkov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Emma Lazarus ranks 4,599 out of 20,380. Before her are Stephen Tobolowsky (1951), Murray Hamilton (1923), Grace Coolidge (1879), Emile Ardolino (1943), Armand Hammer (1898), and John McCook (1944). After her are Julia Grant (1826), Julia Louis-Dreyfus (1961), Francis Lane (1874), Adam Lambert (1982), Beau Biden (1969), and Harry Frankfurt (1929).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Emma Lazarus ranks 384. Before her are Donald Barthelme (1931), Howard Pyle (1853), Cotton Mather (1663), Gene Wolfe (1931), Joss Whedon (1964), and Robert W. Chambers (1865). After her are James Tiptree Jr. (1915), Charles Fort (1874), Lillian Hellman (1905), John Ashbery (1927), Richard Yates (1926), and Marta Kauffman (1956).

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