Writer

Jean Webster

1876 - 1916

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Jean Webster

Jean Webster was the pen name of Alice Jane Chandler Webster (July 24, 1876 – June 11, 1916), an American author whose books include Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy. Her best-known books feature lively and likeable young female protagonists who come of age intellectually, morally, and socially, but with enough humor, snappy dialogue, and gently biting social commentary to make her books palatable and enjoyable to contemporary readers. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Webster is the 1,152nd most popular writer (down from 998th in 2024), the 1,634th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,141st in 2019) and the 130th most popular American Writer.

Jean Webster is most famous for her novel "Daddy-Long-Legs" which was published in 1912.

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Among Writers

Among writers, Jean Webster ranks 1,152 out of 7,302. Before her are Jussi Adler-Olsen, Chiara Lubich, Assia Djebar, Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, Frans Sammut, and Jean-François Marmontel. After her are Charles Simic, Antarah ibn Shaddad, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Gottfried Keller, P. G. Wodehouse, and Vladimir Bartol.

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Jussi Adler-Olsen
1950 - Present
HPI: 67.25
Rank: 1,146
Chiara Lubich
1920 - 2008
HPI: 67.24
Rank: 1,147
Assia Djebar
1936 - 2015
HPI: 67.24
Rank: 1,148
Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse
1868 - 1937
HPI: 67.24
Rank: 1,149
Frans Sammut
1945 - 2011
HPI: 67.23
Rank: 1,150
Jean-François Marmontel
1723 - 1799
HPI: 67.22
Rank: 1,151
Jean Webster
1876 - 1916
HPI: 67.22
Rank: 1,152
Charles Simic
1938 - 2023
HPI: 67.22
Rank: 1,153
Antarah ibn Shaddad
525 - 615
HPI: 67.21
Rank: 1,154
Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué
1777 - 1843
HPI: 67.20
Rank: 1,155
Gottfried Keller
1819 - 1890
HPI: 67.18
Rank: 1,156
P. G. Wodehouse
1881 - 1975
HPI: 67.18
Rank: 1,157
Vladimir Bartol
1903 - 1967
HPI: 67.17
Rank: 1,158

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Jean Webster ranks 43. Before her are Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth, Sherwood Anderson, Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia, Ivan Cankar, Rodolphe Seeldrayers, and Tatyana Afanasyeva. After her are Robert Michels, Archduchess Maria Annunciata of Austria, Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, Natalie Clifford Barney, Ivan Bilibin, and Ziya Gökalp. Among people deceased in 1916, Jean Webster ranks 39. Before her are Percival Lowell, Nedeljko Čabrinović, Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz, Rubén Darío, Gaston Maspero, and Victoriano Huerta. After her are Gérard Encausse, Hugo Münsterberg, Julius Fučík, Pierre Duhem, Théodule-Armand Ribot, and Oskar Backlund.

Others Born in 1876

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Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth
POLITICIAN
1876 - 1951
HPI: 68.29
Rank: 37
Sherwood Anderson
WRITER
1876 - 1941
HPI: 68.24
Rank: 38
Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia
NOBLEMAN
1876 - 1938
HPI: 67.75
Rank: 39
Ivan Cankar
WRITER
1876 - 1918
HPI: 67.55
Rank: 40
Rodolphe Seeldrayers
POLITICIAN
1876 - 1955
HPI: 67.44
Rank: 41
Tatyana Afanasyeva
MATHEMATICIAN
1876 - 1964
HPI: 67.39
Rank: 42
Jean Webster
WRITER
1876 - 1916
HPI: 67.22
Rank: 43
Robert Michels
SOCIOLOGIST
1876 - 1936
HPI: 66.84
Rank: 44
Archduchess Maria Annunciata of Austria
COMPANION
1876 - 1961
HPI: 66.59
Rank: 45
Arthur Moeller van den Bruck
HISTORIAN
1876 - 1925
HPI: 66.36
Rank: 46
Natalie Clifford Barney
WRITER
1876 - 1972
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 47
Ivan Bilibin
PAINTER
1876 - 1942
HPI: 66.09
Rank: 48
Ziya Gökalp
SOCIOLOGIST
1876 - 1924
HPI: 65.74
Rank: 49