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Kate Millett

1934 - 2017

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Katherine Murray Millett (September 14, 1934 – September 6, 2017) was an American feminist writer, educator, artist, and activist. She attended the University of Oxford and was the first American woman to be awarded a degree with first-class honors after studying at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She has been described as "a seminal influence on second-wave feminism", and is best known for her book Sexual Politics (1970), which was based on her doctoral dissertation at Columbia University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kate Millett has received more than 1,072,793 page views. Her biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Kate Millett is the 2,406th most popular writer (down from 1,926th in 2019), the 3,026th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,513th in 2019) and the 263rd most popular American Writer.

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  • 1.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.04

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Kate Millett ranks 2,406 out of 7,302. Before her are M. Karunanidhi, Abu-l-'Atahiya, Giovanni Pascoli, Bion of Smyrna, Mikołaj Rej, and Alonso de Ercilla. After her are Charles Maturin, Vasile Alecsandri, Ahmad Shamlou, Eustache Deschamps, Ki no Tsurayuki, and Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Kate Millett ranks 155. Before her are Lucien Muller, Nadine Trintignant, Tatiana Samoilova, Jean Ziegler, Manfred Wörner, and Ronald Inglehart. After her are Viktor Gorbatko, Anatoly Solonitsyn, Nino Ferrer, Gleb Panfilov, Dionigi Tettamanzi, and Nicéphore Soglo. Among people deceased in 2017, Kate Millett ranks 159. Before her are Claude Rich, Ludmila Belousova, Mildred Dresselhaus, Infanta Alicia, Duchess of Calabria, Ulf Stark, and Étienne Tshisekedi. After her are Viktor Gorbatko, Maryam Mirzakhani, Predrag Matvejević, Raymond Smullyan, John Wetton, and Miloslav Vlk.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Kate Millett ranks 3,026 out of 20,380. Before her are Dana Delany (1956), Octavia Spencer (1972), William Powell (1892), John Paul Getty III (1956), The Miz (1980), and Francis Preserved Leavenworth (1858). After her are Robert W. Wood (1868), Frank Wolff (1928), George Mason (1725), Bobby Kimball (1947), Gutzon Borglum (1867), and Vonda N. McIntyre (1948).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Kate Millett ranks 263. Before her are Kathy Reichs (1948), William Peter Blatty (1928), Terry Bisson (1942), Frank McCourt (1930), Neil Postman (1931), and Charles Berlitz (1913). After her are Vonda N. McIntyre (1948), Kate Chopin (1850), Mary Mapes Dodge (1831), Winston Groom (1943), Annie Proulx (1935), and Richard Wright (1908).

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