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Kate Chopin

1850 - 1904

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Kate Chopin (, also US: ; born Katherine O'Flaherty; February 8, 1850 – August 22, 1904) was an American author of short stories and novels based in Louisiana. She is considered by scholars to have been a forerunner of American 20th-century feminist authors of Southern or Catholic background, such as Zelda Fitzgerald, and she is among the most frequently read and recognized writers of Louisiana Creole heritage. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kate Chopin has received more than 1,659,368 page views. Her biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Kate Chopin is the 2,420th most popular writer (down from 2,352nd in 2019), the 3,033rd most popular biography from United States (down from 3,030th in 2019) and the 265th most popular American Writer.

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  • 1.7M

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  • 61.02

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Kate Chopin ranks 2,420 out of 7,302. Before her are Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sotion, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Vonda N. McIntyre, Charlotte Buff, and Aelred of Rievaulx. After her are Olaudah Equiano, Peter of Dusburg, Ugo Betti, Noor Inayat Khan, Niccolò Tommaseo, and Paul Hazard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, Kate Chopin ranks 43. Before her are Marcelo H. del Pilar, Hans Hartwig von Beseler, Grand Duke Nicholas Konstantinovich of Russia, Alexander von Linsingen, John Collier, and David Schwarz. After her are Princess Marie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Jean-François Raffaëlli, Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Kiyoura Keigo, Pablo Iglesias Posse, and Josias von Heeringen. Among people deceased in 1904, Kate Chopin ranks 51. Before her are Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, Vyacheslav von Plehve, William Renshaw, Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt, Laura Vicuña, and Ernest, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld. After her are Alexander William Williamson, George Frederic Watts, Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, Samuel Smiles, Frederick William, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and Georg Sauerwein.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Kate Chopin ranks 3,033 out of 20,380. Before her are Robert W. Wood (1868), Frank Wolff (1928), George Mason (1725), Bobby Kimball (1947), Gutzon Borglum (1867), and Vonda N. McIntyre (1948). After her are Dan Inosanto (1936), Calista Flockhart (1964), Thomas P. Stafford (1930), Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898), Melvil Dewey (1851), and Curtis Mayfield (1942).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Kate Chopin ranks 265. Before her are Terry Bisson (1942), Frank McCourt (1930), Neil Postman (1931), Charles Berlitz (1913), Kate Millett (1934), and Vonda N. McIntyre (1948). After her are Mary Mapes Dodge (1831), Winston Groom (1943), Annie Proulx (1935), Richard Wright (1908), Michael Bishop (1945), and Alice B. Toklas (1877).

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