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Adrienne Rich

1929 - 2012

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Adrienne Cecile Rich ( AD-ree-ən; May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bringing "the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse". Rich criticized rigid forms of feminist identities, and valorized what she coined the "lesbian continuum", which is a female continuum of solidarity and creativity that impacts and fills women's lives. Her first collection of poetry, A Change of World, was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adrienne Rich is the 2,843rd most popular writer (up from 3,508th in 2019), the 4,094th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,490th in 2019) and the 328th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Adrienne Rich ranks 2,843 out of 7,302. Before her are Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Lucia Berlin, Carlo Emilio Gadda, Harold Robbins, Idries Shah, and Charles Berlitz. After her are Ricarda Huch, Kader Abdolah, Uladzimir Karatkievich, Roy Medvedev, Massimo Bontempelli, and Benjamin Fondane.

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Among people born in 1929, Adrienne Rich ranks 211. Before her are Gerhard Hanappi, Peter Yates, Roger Byrne, Shakuntala Devi, René Laloux, and Julinho. After her are Edison Denisov, Andrew Bertie, François Cheng, Karl Koller, Christoph von Dohnányi, and Link Wray. Among people deceased in 2012, Adrienne Rich ranks 164. Before her are Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, Bob Anderson, Maxim of Bulgaria, George McGovern, Pavel Grachev, and Ivica Horvat. After her are George Knobel, Josef Škvorecký, Friedrich Hirzebruch, Manuel Fraga, Shulamith Firestone, and Fiorenzo Magni.

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Among people born in United States, Adrienne Rich ranks 4,094 out of 20,380. Before her are Jeannette Rankin (1880), Jo Van Fleet (1915), Bob Pettit (1932), Dave Grusin (1934), Rob Lowe (1964), and Charles Berlitz (1913). After her are Marilyn Chambers (1952), James Mark Baldwin (1861), Melissa Gilbert (1964), Joanna Cassidy (1945), Dyan Cannon (1937), and Pat Boone (1934).

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Among writers born in United States, Adrienne Rich ranks 328. Before her are Frank McCourt (1930), Colleen Hoover (1979), William L. Shirer (1904), Lucia Berlin (1936), Harold Robbins (1916), and Charles Berlitz (1913). After her are Tom Robbins (1932), Judith Miller (1948), Eric Roth (1945), John Ashbery (1927), Edward Bunker (1933), and Eric Carle (1929).

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