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Agnes Smedley

1892 - 1950

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Agnes Smedley (February 23, 1892 – May 6, 1950) was an American journalist, writer and activist who supported the Indian Independence Movement and the Chinese Communist Revolution. Raised in a poverty-stricken miner's family in Missouri and Colorado, she dramatized the formation of her feminist and socialist consciousness in the autobiographical novel Daughter of Earth (1929). As a college student during World War I, she organized support for the independence of India from the United Kingdom, receiving financial support from the government of Germany. After the war she went to Germany, where she met and worked with Indian nationalists. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Agnes Smedley is the 1,964th most popular writer (down from 1,813th in 2019), the 2,887th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,284th in 2019) and the 231st most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Agnes Smedley ranks 1,964 out of 7,302. Before her are Leopoldo Alas, Fred Vargas, Thomas Kyd, Theophylact of Ohrid, Basil Valentine, and James Herriot. After her are Marin Držić, Clark Ashton Smith, Nicholas Sparks, Methodius of Olympus, Alejandra Pizarnik, and Avitus of Vienne.

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Among people born in 1892, Agnes Smedley ranks 99. Before her are Takeo Takagi, Richard Neutra, Reinhold Niebuhr, Radola Gajda, Robert Watson-Watt, and Herman Potočnik. After her are Ivan Šubašić, Joseph Szigeti, Karl Lennart Oesch, Peljidiin Genden, Charles Vanel, and Richard Aldington. Among people deceased in 1950, Agnes Smedley ranks 66. Before her are Salvatore Giuliano, Olaf Stapledon, Alfred Korzybski, Adam Rainer, Walter Huston, and Henry H. Arnold. After her are Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer, Arturo Alessandri, William Lyon Mackenzie King, Kazys Grinius, Yvan Goll, and Peter Fraser.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Agnes Smedley ranks 2,887 out of 20,380. Before her are John McTiernan (1951), Harold Rainsford Stark (1880), Frances Arnold (1956), Steve Russell (1937), Louis E. Brus (1943), and Don Henley (1947). After her are Clark Ashton Smith (1893), Nicholas Sparks (1965), Brad Davis (1949), Adam Goldberg (1970), William Moulton Marston (1893), and Jimmy Ellis (1940).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Agnes Smedley ranks 231. Before her are Frederik Pohl (1919), E. E. Cummings (1894), John Barth (1930), Nelson Algren (1909), Chuck Palahniuk (1962), and Maria Shriver (1955). After her are Clark Ashton Smith (1893), Nicholas Sparks (1965), William Moulton Marston (1893), Virginia Henderson (1897), Frances Harper (1825), and Walter Tevis (1928).

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