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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 one of the more 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 1,556,731 page views. Her biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Kate Chopin is the 2,359th most popular writer (down from 2,102nd in 2019), the 3,037th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,629th in 2019) and the 268th most popular American Writer.

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  • 1.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Kate Chopin ranks 2,359 out of 5,755. Before her are Wilhelm Raabe, Orson Scott Card, Alois Jirásek, Apostolo Zeno, Antigonus of Carystus, and Hans Hellmut Kirst. After her are Cangrande I della Scala, Johnston McCulley, Hendrik Conscience, Maksim Bahdanovič, Bhavabhuti, and Alan Sillitoe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, Kate Chopin ranks 42. Before her are Ebenezer Howard, John Collier, Grand Duke Nicholas Konstantinovich of Russia, George Huntington, Nikolai Golitsyn, and Princess Marie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt. After her are Marcelo H. del Pilar, Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Alexander von Linsingen, Hans Hartwig von Beseler, Cut Nyak Dhien, and Pablo Iglesias Posse. Among people deceased in 1904, Kate Chopin ranks 47. Before her are Herbert von Bismarck, Clemens Winkler, Franz von Lenbach, Vyacheslav von Plehve, Jovan Jovanović Zmaj, and Frederick William, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. After her are William Renshaw, Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, Eugen Schauman, Ernest, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld, George Frederic Watts, and Samuel Smiles.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Kate Chopin ranks 3,037 out of 18,182. Before her are Eugene Stoner (1922), Rhea Perlman (1948), Roger Myerson (1951), Orson Scott Card (1951), Thomas Cech (1947), and David Petraeus (1952). After her are Patrick Wilson (1973), Dean Rusk (1909), Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903), Bonnie Hunt (1961), Henry Hill (1943), and Johnston McCulley (1883).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Kate Chopin ranks 268. Before her are Terry Goodkind (1948), Neil Postman (1931), Alexandra Ripley (1934), Edward Bunker (1933), Mary Baker Eddy (1821), and Orson Scott Card (1951). After her are Johnston McCulley (1883), Robert James Waller (1939), Jacques Futrelle (1875), Siri Hustvedt (1955), William L. Shirer (1904), and Winston Groom (1943).

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